Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Nov 2007 19:33 UTC, submitted by AVL_
"iXsystems announced today a distribution agreement with Fry's Electronics whereby all Fry's stores nationwide will carry PC-BSD Version 1.4, Da Vinci Edition. The agreement marks the first time that the PC-BSD operating system is made available for purchase at Fry's Electronics. PC-BSD is a fully functional desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. FreeBSD is one of the most used UNIX-like operating systems in the world. It is widely renowned as the most stable and secure server operating system."
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"think that's a little hopeful - 'one of the most' as in the bottom half of the top 10 or so maybe, under Linux, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Darwin etc. "
A quick look on Netcraft would debunk your statement. Linux is more popular, but that's about it. AIX, IRIX, Darwin are way below FreeBSD in usage.