Your lens is probably too small, Paul does a great job quantifying bug probability to more human terms in the above presentation.
I ran all OS dev and support in an environment with 10000 FreeBSD systems and 3000 Linux systems in high scale production. The ratio of kernel panics was similar (although Linux tended to exhibit additional less rigorous failure modes due to more usage of work queues and other reasons). You could expect at least a couple faults per day depending on the quality of hardware and how far off the beaten path your system usage is at this scale. The big benefit I found with FreeBSD is that I could understand and fix the bugs, and I was generally intimidated by doing so on Linux.
Your lens is probably too small, Paul does a great job quantifying bug probability to more human terms in the above presentation.
I ran all OS dev and support in an environment with 10000 FreeBSD systems and 3000 Linux systems in high scale production. The ratio of kernel panics was similar (although Linux tended to exhibit additional less rigorous failure modes due to more usage of work queues and other reasons). You could expect at least a couple faults per day depending on the quality of hardware and how far off the beaten path your system usage is at this scale. The big benefit I found with FreeBSD is that I could understand and fix the bugs, and I was generally intimidated by doing so on Linux.