"Linux for grown-ups"

Saw
this at Arstechnica : Gnulinux.com
has an interview with Jordon Hubbard, the President and CEO
of FreeBSD. There's plenty
of banter on "Linux vs. FreeBSD," as expected but there is some
interesting discussion on the role of FreeBSD in the "post-pc
era" and answers to questions like "Can FreeBSD scale to a PDA?"
A snippet:

The
real goal behind our original mandate was to say "whatever's popular
and on the most desktops is what we'll support." At the time we
made the decision, that was the Intel PC. If that changes, if
AMD becomes the most popular architecture or Transmeta, sure,
our focus will change with it.

Sure,
Linux is today's media's darling but let's not forget the smaller
guys working on the open source front. For those new to BSD flavor
of UNIX check out a recent Salon
article on the history of BSD. My favorite quote from the
article is on Bill Joy's (arguably the father of BSD) opinion
of Linux's much touted "power in the masses" development benefits:

"Most
people are bad programmers," says Joy. "The honest truth is that
having a lot of people staring at the code does not find the really
nasty bugs. The really nasty bugs are found by a couple of really
smart people who just kill themselves. Most people looking at
the code won't see anything ... You can't have thousands of people
contributing and achieve a high standard."

Go
check out the interview