I would guess BSD would be a bad choice due to poor portability and
hardware support - Linux is better supported on embedded hardware. Even
WindRiver now support it.
Wow wow wow.
That's a brave assumption :))
Not really; it's provable. (Note, I said "BSD" and "portability *and*
hardware support" - yes, one BSD is very portable, that's beside the
point).
Of the lists I could find, I can only see six commercial products which
can run BSD. Broadcom, for example, sell boards like the BCM91250A which
is capable of running BSD. But, it also runs Linux and that's really
what people are more likely to be interested in. And these aren't
commercial products per se, they're development devices.
I could find http://www.root-hq.com/products/RGW2400.html, which is
supposedly a BSD-based router. That's it. If Linux wasn't the better
solution by a country mile, you would find a lot more examples of BSD
being used.
I completely rest my case :))