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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure by lmm on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:18AM (#11869957)
It took a long time for FreeBSD to support MS-DOS partitioning, so for a long time you couldn't dual-boot between Windows and FreeBSD without buying a second hard disk. So kids getting started tended to run Linux instead of FreeBSD, and they stuck with what they knew.
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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure by emaste on Thursday June 09, 2016 @04:44PM (#11872228)
DOS partition support was added to the FreeBSD installer over two decades ago:

    Tue Sep 7 12:02:11 1993 UTC (22 years, 9 months ago)
    Added DOS partition support and maybe badblock remappping.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=408
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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure by mioelnir on Thursday June 09, 2016 @06:31PM (#11872863)
I love that maybe in there.
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