I'll try an analogy, when it comes to out of the box usefulness.
Think of a building with three stories and a basement.
Mac OS owns all the three stories (kernel, basic user land tools and specialized tools) and the basement (HW). Visitors allowed only in the top two floors i.e. third party applications.
Windows is similar to Mac OS, except that they don't own the basement.
FreeBSD owns the first and the second floors.
Linux - Well Linux is Linux - They own the first floor, but claim to own second floor as well and residents of both floors seem to trespass at will.
The FreeBSD stack will resemble similar to that of Windows with some/minimal effort (not that I'm fond of Windows, but that's closest ... FreeBSD can neither design their hardware nor afford the chaos called Linux). The key is "ownership".
Not UI/Graphics, but server applications. Its not that FreeBSD doesn't provide any (Sendmail for example). But leaves out other important server users (Web Servers, Databases, managed environments etc.).
Think of a building with three stories and a basement.
Mac OS owns all the three stories (kernel, basic user land tools and specialized tools) and the basement (HW). Visitors allowed only in the top two floors i.e. third party applications.
Windows is similar to Mac OS, except that they don't own the basement.
FreeBSD owns the first and the second floors.
Linux - Well Linux is Linux - They own the first floor, but claim to own second floor as well and residents of both floors seem to trespass at will.
The FreeBSD stack will resemble similar to that of Windows with some/minimal effort (not that I'm fond of Windows, but that's closest ... FreeBSD can neither design their hardware nor afford the chaos called Linux). The key is "ownership".
Not UI/Graphics, but server applications. Its not that FreeBSD doesn't provide any (Sendmail for example). But leaves out other important server users (Web Servers, Databases, managed environments etc.).