[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/29/2023 9:15 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, Simon Clubley 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... :-) ).
> 
> Netflix picked FreeBSD as it could chuck out data at 400GB/s. Linux was
> not even close.

Yes. But.

NetFlix is running their general server load (node.js, Spring Boot,
Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra etc.) on Linux (supposedly Ubuntu)
in AWS.

NetFlix chose FreeBSD for their CDN appliance that they deploy
at ISP's.

Maybe not so important market share wise.

But certainly proof of FreeBSD's technical qualities. The default
choice would have been Linux, so FreeBSD must have proven to
be better to be selected.

Arne