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>Infrastructure runs mostly on Linux. Uh, no. Telecom infrastructure is routers and switches by proprietary vendors like Cisco, Adtran, etc. The world's fiber
by drzaiusapelord 10y ago
>Infrastructure runs mostly on Linux.
Uh, no. Telecom infrastructure is routers and switches by proprietary vendors like Cisco, Adtran, etc. The world's fiber isn't connected to some kid's linux or pfsense box for routing. Its connected to a RTOS that's battle-tested, supported, etc.
- marcosdumay 10y agoHum... not that much. I partially take back my comment, but only because there were plenty of vendors using BSD. As much as I would wish it to be a micro-kernel RTOS with just the needed functionality, it often isn't.
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoYeah maybe when it reaches Ma and Pa's Cloud hosting service, but the internet itself, as in the big telecom companies are not running things on a janky BSD box. They're using RTOS based equipment from vendors with strict SLAs, lots of redundancy, etc.
- walrus01 10y agoNot Linux, but JunOS on seriously large core routers (T1600, MX960, etc) is a direct FreeBSD derivative.