We did not make a technical choice to abandon FreeBSD in favor or something else, we made an organizational choice
to abandon external hosting in favor of owned and operated hosting which required a lot of technical changes, one
of which was switching operating systems.
Yes. Maybe a nice one for the Phoronix website ? I'd guess that OpenBSD would not score that high. OpenBSD is cool for firewalls and servers with focus on security but not sure about speed.
It appears that there's a bunch of benchmarks for various flavours of BSD already there. I'm not sure how to compare these with each other and various Linux distributions in a meaningful way.
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Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 49 pts · 2y
Ironically you can't use FreeBSD (or any BSD) to watch Netflix content. Even on Linux the resolution and bitrate get limited. What a fucking joke.
dinckelman@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 2y
Of course it is. This is called capitalism, and it sucks.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 2y
Fun fact: WhatsApp also used to run their servers on FreeBSD. Then Facebook bought them and now they use Linux.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028689
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 2y
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mrlupulus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I think Varnish can do 1Tbps with a off the shelf Linux without any special hw/firmware.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 3 pts · 2y
I wonder if the need for speed that Netflix requires has any benchmarks that compares FreeBSD with things like OpenBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL and SUSE.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Yes. Maybe a nice one for the Phoronix website ? I'd guess that OpenBSD would not score that high. OpenBSD is cool for firewalls and servers with focus on security but not sure about speed.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 2 pts · 2y
It appears that there's a bunch of benchmarks for various flavours of BSD already there. I'm not sure how to compare these with each other and various Linux distributions in a meaningful way.