Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Sep 2005 12:54 UTC, submitted by Eugenia
"Okay, I've had an opinion change I'd like to announce. I'm betting that the future of mobility will be Linux, and not Symbian, Windows or anything else. This is quite a change from my previous pro-Symbian stances, but I've been sort of leaning this way for a while - or rather, leaning away from Symbian as it fails to live up to its potential - and now I've finally come to a religious change of faith when it comes to mobile OSes."
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Linux is perceived to be the most compact, portable OS out there whether it is or not, and arguably has enough existing developer tools for the embedded market to make it popular.
Toasters aside, it's going to take a LOT of visible BSD port projects to steal that thunder, and like it or not, a heavier focus on proof of concept as a desktop OS (starting with LiveCDs that detect and configure X). What sold OS X, "BSD" or ease of use? (conversely, when Apple chose NeXT over BeOS, was processor portability their chief concern?)
I honestly don't know enough about what's under the respective hoods of GNU/Linux and BSD to say which is better. But until BSD geeks are as devoted to proving it runs comfortably on routers, iPods, iPAQs, X-Boxen, and the like, Linux is going to be the darling, at least until it fails spectacularly at something that BSD excels in.