Re:The Magical Mystery Merge Or Why we run FreeBSD-current a...
by toast0 on Monday June 10, 2024 @09:59AM
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It's hard to do apples to apples comparison, because you'd need two excellent, committed teams working on this.
I'm a FreeBSD supporter, but I'm sure you could get things to work in Linux too. I haven't seen any posts like 'yeah, we got 800 gbps out of our Linux CDN boxes too', but I don't see a lot of posts about CDN boxes at all.
As someone else downthread wrote, using FreeBSD gives a lot of control, and IMHO provides a much more stable base to work with.
Where I've worked, we didn't follow -CURRENT, and tended to avoid .0 releases, but it was rare to see breakage across upgrades and it was typically easy to track down what changed because there usually wasn't a lot of changes in the suspect system. That's not really been my experience with Linux.
A small community probably helps get their changes upstreamed regularly too.
I'm a FreeBSD supporter, but I'm sure you could get things to work in Linux too. I haven't seen any posts like 'yeah, we got 800 gbps out of our Linux CDN boxes too', but I don't see a lot of posts about CDN boxes at all.
As someone else downthread wrote, using FreeBSD gives a lot of control, and IMHO provides a much more stable base to work with.
Where I've worked, we didn't follow -CURRENT, and tended to avoid .0 releases, but it was rare to see breakage across upgrades and it was typically easy to track down what changed because there usually wasn't a lot of changes in the suspect system. That's not really been my experience with Linux.
A small community probably helps get their changes upstreamed regularly too.