Lots of projects offer a FreeBSD version of the apps. And of course the opensource ones like TN-Grid can be directly compiled. And every linux project can be run through the linuxlator at minimal performance loss (CUDA projects included).
If you are a FreeBSD fan, you might like to have a quick way to set up BOINC to pump these numbers up,manage something you like more, and of course reward projects that care about all platforms.
A particularly good use case is for a firewall or NAS , which are two uses were BSD is really strong, and have usually free resources to dedicate to BOINC.
If people are supportive of the project it shouldn't be difficult to come up with a distribution . I might base it in PacBSD to make things easier for you and for me . Plus i have a nice idea for a red, "horny" logo .
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STOPThank you @ivanviso, it is always good to look at different options. What are the benefits of using PacBSD over @delta1512's BoincOS in a Gridcoin mining setup?
PacBSD is just FreeBSD using arch packages (but compiled for FreeBSD), the benefits of using anything FreeBSD based are few, and mostly sentimental, like joining a boinc team. BoincOS point is to have a quick to drop boinc dedicated OS, and if you are computing for anything that has apps avaliable for FreeBSD it is going to run very similarly than on linux.
Its most interesting use is for anyone having a NAS or Firewall computer running FreeBSD (extremely common, ZFS and pf are very superior), which only works in small sprints to use their free resources this way. (not like anyone couldnt just install boinc in their current setups, but having things pre-set helps the lazy, and im lazy.
I use FreeNAS on my server which is based on FreeBSD. I setup a VM on this machine to run Ubuntu. It works very well and is in fact my best cruncher.
I think you would get even better results with the linux emulation or by using native FreeBSD projects .