From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 01:48:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786CC106566B for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 01:48:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dddaley@yahoo.com) Received: from nm28-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (nm28-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com [98.139.91.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 311F08FC1E for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 01:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.91.66] by nm28.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Jun 2012 01:48:34 -0000 Received: from [208.71.42.205] by tm6.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Jun 2012 01:45:39 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp216.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Jun 2012 01:45:39 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1338947139; bh=i4NsFIYhR0/wRvy1CohirN6yPTyWT6L1k89k65zPVkY=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ubKChXkbVaKo0uDX8BeqB4yynyIjo6kgoLVRx/xt2lL+YHdXIoB+wSdo/F9peXBzS3w5T3lAtz0uHbIT+nhXtxx/uXFmUEqCM5HM8HY9cG25pcYw5e6jaQLHnJ+k49+dXkd+jjRxO/GKbx4MWEh6DG9vG75WmpTZ4vD89AO7Yx0= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 852614.80218.bm@smtp216.mail.gq1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: RHit71cVM1nipwMuOdbALXgfxd6ZMacv8zFGc4HP0oFb64x dWKJ1vROvsULZpVSbFOfUQhvwlxpdp.DT2TO6asscXn4c2tjOuEyzZNIMeRq LIOkO9BAWEqXA2MfMADwsM3WUJc6x17gB6nRLrM2tYnwf_21VDfzSw4jKpyJ gfdgWRN2PrMSkyQdQTotd6BSYhJoGA.5QKGRbfhtDn3sQ_OfusEWQ6.8t9NR XSjZ4TaFVsoe9J2UowdeH_GNo5c5U8SkREE8Os93jtmBW2xGMXBCobW8fwMb KzlgH_7rijtu.9QBWDyFdnK_6kBcOb6mrNq94G5H6XyLwC5p_V0nv9uvtXGb wG_Fo0xkic7ouDvtAsZaZjws.vJG3nm0i_rOquq7sNenxsxUETv54JPR17qM gN6PqQqWVPQCbPCzG2pLpriHQg.K5AE8UpB4hUzDDfb8- X-Yahoo-SMTP: z6dQwTeswBDDR3zJap0nVIllEEY- Received: from shuttlebsd.localdomain (dddaley@107.30.203.177 with plain) by smtp216.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 05 Jun 2012 18:45:39 -0700 PDT Message-ID: <4FCEB63D.3080409@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:45:33 -0500 From: Dan Daley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120318 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Magda References: <3CEF3B39-BE1E-4FC4-81F3-D26049C83313@netflix.com> <331117A3-8C3B-4F39-848C-D08008633F09@ee.ryerson.ca> In-Reply-To: <331117A3-8C3B-4F39-848C-D08008633F09@ee.ryerson.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Scott Long , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:48:40 -0000 Maybe their knowledge of Linux drove them to use FreeBSD. Sorry, couldn't resist ;) On 06/05/2012 19:42, David Magda wrote: > On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote: > >> If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links on the >> OpenConnect web site. > Out of curiosity, given that Linux seems popular in so many other places (Google, Facebook), is there any particular reason why FreeBSD was chosen for this? > > I'm sure Linux is used in many other places (much of Netflix's IT infrastructure is on Amazon IIRC), so I'm kind of surprised that they went with FreeBSD when they probably already have so much knowledge with Linux. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"