If vendors does not support your os and do not maintain packages for your os (which means compile-test-release cycle) it is the same as if it does not exist.
The curse of FreeBSD is that so-called Linux vendors doesn't take trouble to support it. There are, for example, no support for Android SDK for FreeBSD, while, being mostly Java-based it is not that difficult. The emulator and driver for debugging seems like a complicated thing, but it is not that complicated.
So, when Google or even Percona will do packaging for you, then one could say that an OS makes some sense.
The curse of FreeBSD is that so-called Linux vendors doesn't take trouble to support it. There are, for example, no support for Android SDK for FreeBSD, while, being mostly Java-based it is not that difficult. The emulator and driver for debugging seems like a complicated thing, but it is not that complicated.
So, when Google or even Percona will do packaging for you, then one could say that an OS makes some sense.