There's no specific point in any of *BSD. They all are general purpose OSes. NetBSD forked from FreeBSD, OpenBSD forked from NetBSD. Conflicts between developers were main reasons for that.
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I think the point is network appliances but it seems mainly used by hobbyists from what I’ve seen.
Somewhat confused this is in a linux community when none of these OS are linux based. Are we lacking on BSD communities?
We don't have BSD communities and even if we did they probably wouldn't be big enough to get a decent answer.
So I asked here cos there's a high chance that some Linux users will also know something about *BSD.
You'd probably get better conversations at selfhosted I know some folks there run *bsd network appliances. NASs, firewalls, etc.
That doesn't mean we want it here. Missing the community you are looking for? Create it.
And then you have NomadBSD if you need an OS in a usb stick :)