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alecco ◴[] No.45958647[source]
Being a networking company I always wondered why did they pick Linux over FreeBSD.
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HumanOstrich ◴[] No.45960281[source]
Why does being a networking company suggest FreeBSD is the "right" pick?
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password4321 ◴[] 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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1. HumanOstrich ◴[] No.45960480[source]
I think they used FreeBSD because they were already using FreeBSD. The article doesn't mention Linux.