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How to escape the Linux networking stack

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148 points meysamazad | 3 comments | 17 Nov 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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alecco ◴[17 Nov 25 21:38 UTC] No.45958647[source]▶
Being a networking company I always wondered why did they pick Linux over FreeBSD.
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HumanOstrich ◴[18 Nov 25 01:09 UTC] No.45960281[source]▶
Why does being a networking company suggest FreeBSD is the "right" pick?
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1. password4321 ◴[18 Nov 25 01:36 UTC] No.45960424[source]▶
Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] (2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738

(I don't share this as "the answer" as much as one example from years past.)

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2. HumanOstrich ◴[18 Nov 25 01:46 UTC] No.45960480[source]▶
I think they used FreeBSD because they were already using FreeBSD. The article doesn't mention Linux.
3. victorbjorklund ◴[18 Nov 25 08:18 UTC] No.45962649[source]▶
To be honest, I think when I heard them speak, they're kind of saying yes, FreeBSD is awesome but that the main reason is that the early people there liked FreeBSD so they just stuck with it. And that it's a good choice, but they don't claim these are things that would be impossible to do with optimizations in Linux.