From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 03:29:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE148106564A for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 03:29:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@netflix.com) Received: from exout103.netflix.com (exout101.netflix.com [69.53.237.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C9D8FC15 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 03:29:30 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=s1024;d=netflix.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:references:in-reply-to :content-type:mime-version; bh=3lwYjqDrRNLsrB/BLijk6OF0LR4=; b=gxfrAHCv41U/Cj4UnPIDm/J4tsUBXc8OOslcP/XmyHhHFClcKGdV0ZvlYm1islZyardMhf6y IULQjq7XFSF9AZPLOjCmeGqV8G7G11la7CQ4QK4KQnT6jQ9LCpViftb/vRHIxEW+jFD4p4rG iAqagoHV6l8NMhv/zuhcNwJ5mY8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024;d=netflix.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:references:in-reply-to :content-type:mime-version; b=A2Jrg4FBtj96npaYP1kl6pakLgPkWJy7xEt6vFfWwOh6GcE+BUffdtmqeDjaHMCZZ09QwEuV CvwkVRaILXPExDuKz3lFJtDwiuKK8a69/e/WLc7jS9FgdwNtHVmX+N/McjYO2V///dxZdp/S axS3aEVIypEDzZNZZVwMylonINw= Received: from EXFE102.corp.netflix.com (10.64.32.162) by exout103.netflix.com (10.64.240.73) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.298.4; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 20:29:20 -0700 Received: from EXMB107.corp.netflix.com ([169.254.7.134]) by exfe102.corp.netflix.com ([10.64.32.162]) with mapi id 14.02.0283.003; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 20:29:23 -0700 From: Scott Long To: David Magda Thread-Topic: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD Thread-Index: AQHNQ3mpDyhfu/u2jUaowYKh4kcMDZbs6P2AgAAuiQA= Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 03:29:22 +0000 Message-ID: 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> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.64.24.140] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: 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 03:29:30 -0000 On Jun 5, 2012, at 6:42 PM, David Magda wrote: > On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote: >=20 >> If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links o= n the >> OpenConnect web site. >=20 > Out of curiosity, given that Linux seems popular in so many other places = (Google, Facebook), is there any particular reason why FreeBSD was chosen f= or this? >=20 > I'm sure Linux is used in many other places (much of Netflix's IT infrast= ructure is on Amazon IIRC), so I'm kind of surprised that they went with Fr= eeBSD when they probably already have so much knowledge with Linux. >=20 >=20 Linux works wonderfully on EC2 for our C&C and computational tasks, FreeBSD= is proving to work well on deployed hardware for serving bits. It highly = maintainable, and there's an excellent community supporting it. From the w= ebsite: For the operating system, we use FreeBSD version 9.0. This was selected for its balance of stability and features, a strong development community and staff expertise. We will contribute changes we make as part of our project to the community through the FreeBSD committers on our team.