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How to escape the Linux networking stack

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148 points meysamazad | 1 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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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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1. 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.