On Jun 5, 2012, at 6:42 PM, David Magda wrote: > On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote: > >> If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links on the >> OpenConnect web site. > > Out of curiosity, given that Linux seems popular in so many other places > (Google, Facebook), is there any particular reason why FreeBSD was chosen for > this? > > I'm sure Linux is used in many other places (much of Netflix's IT > infrastructure is on Amazon IIRC), so I'm kind of surprised that they went > with FreeBSD when they probably already have so much knowledge with Linux. > >
Linux works wonderfully on EC2 for our C&C and computational tasks, FreeBSD is proving to work well on deployed hardware for serving bits. It highly maintainable, and there's an excellent community supporting it. From the website: For the operating system, we use FreeBSD <http://www.freebsd.org/> version 9.0. This was selected for its balance of stability and features, a strong development community and staff expertise. We will contribute changes we make as part of our project to the community through the FreeBSD committers on our team. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
