Once upon a time, Alain Hebert <[email protected]> said: > Since most of the reference implementation from their ASIC > provider with be Linux based ... the path of least resistance wins.
This is on the RE, which is just standard Intel x86 stuff (or IIRC ARM for smaller stuff?). > And, I think, the "preference" of the majority of their own > devs/mgmt which never knew nothing but Linux =D. I think with FreeBSD-based Junos, Juniper forked their chosen FreeBSD release and made a bunch of customizations. That means every time they need to get to newer FreeBSD (for newer hardware support, newer features, etc.), it is a major operation. With Junos Evolved, it sounds like they're going with somebody else's distribution (Wind River) and adapting to fit it. Then when they need new support, they just get the latest release and go (somebody else does all the hardware work). It's my understand that the Linux kernel tends to have broader support for new hardware than the FreeBSD kernel, but I haven't really looked in a long time (I run Linux, not FreeBSD, so I could be wrong). -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
