"It was the second-highest user-voiced request," says Neal Shrader, Senior Software Engineer at DigitalOcean, discussing their move to support FreeBSD. "It's understandable why people wanted it. People who are into BSD are passionate about BSD and they have no problem in voicing that."

Dealings with the community have been great, says Thor Swehla, Software Engineer at DigitalOcean. "It helped us make the offering a lot more solid and tailored to what the users were trying to do," he says. "I would definitely look for something with that strong of a community, or make sure that we were talking to the right community, for anything that we launch in the future."

Neal and Thor join The New Stack founder Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz for this episode of The New Stack Analysts.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-31-digitalocean-learned-adding-freebsd-support/