[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/29/2023 8:13 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-08-28, chrisq <devzero at nospam.com> wrote:
>> Very much FreeBSD here for some years, after decades first with dec,
>> then Sun. Forms the basic of at least some proprietary offerings, as
>> well as millions of embedded devices. Linux is still a unix,
>> and runs the majority of web sites of the world, so if anything,
>> unix has won the os wars...
> 
> Yes, very much so. (And I can't believe Arne thinks the *BSDs have no
> serious users... :-) ).

It definitely has some but not as many as it once had.

20 years ago FreeBSD was sort of the free "high end" OS
and used by places where Windows and Linux was not considered
good enough.

The world has changed since then.

Linux has also squeezed FreeBSD market share.

Primarily for non-technical reasons:
- Linux got backing from IBM, Oracle etc.
- Easier to hire Linux expertise
- Many companies standardize on a Linux only strategy for applications
   (exception for the stuff supporting PC's)
- Cloud vendors has pushed Linux
- Many companies are moving applications to Kubernetes on Linux (*)

*) I believe that FreeBSD got jails before Linux got containers and
    jails should be just as good, but FreeBSD jails does not have
    the eco-system that Linux containers has (Kubernetes, OpenShift etc.)

Arne