Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 03:29:22 +0000 From: Scott Long <scottl@netflix.com> To: David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD Message-ID: <E4DC62A7-9175-4EB4-A2F9-23A2956CE2C9@netflix.com> In-Reply-To: <331117A3-8C3B-4F39-848C-D08008633F09@ee.ryerson.ca> References: <CAMYW4Zi4y16EL1=%2Bsfz1XATc9ZnQpocUD_Xf9Jg=LR=c1AgaKA@mail.gmail.com> <3CEF3B39-BE1E-4FC4-81F3-D26049C83313@netflix.com> <331117A3-8C3B-4F39-848C-D08008633F09@ee.ryerson.ca>
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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 <http://www.freebsd.org/>; 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.
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