That is a good point.
I had not thought about that before.
FreeBSB was released Novembet1993
Linux had its first release
Linux was initially released on September 1991
Per Wiki, I am not sure if this is accurate.
He did announce it then, but it was not open source.
Yggdrasil had their first December 8, 1992
Slackware had its first release July 17 1993
I knew about Yggdrasil because I was using it back then.
In February 1993.
All to say that Linx appears to have just barely makde it to market
ahead of FreeBSD but that may not relevant at all.
Why did Linux get such a huge following and FreeBSD not.
Especially when there are BSD variants that are really good.