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From an objective standpoint, the Linux stack is actually better in a lot of ways. They are generally much, much, much tighter in terms of cache misses and per
by drewg123 9y ago
From an objective standpoint, the Linux stack is actually better in a lot of ways. They are generally much, much, much tighter in terms of cache misses and per-packet costs. They have a lot of features that FreeBSD doesn't, and a lot of innovation happens there (BBR).
And they have a huge number of very smart people working on it. I've had the privilege of working with some of them at Google, and have nothing but respect for them.
- ksec 9y agoSo basically from an Kernel / System programmer standpoint, There are no reason to use BSDs today apart from License?
- kev009 9y agoFrom a business perspective, I think it's easier to pick up *BSD talent. Although the pool is smaller, the pool is more talent dense. If you can afford to not care about the kernel (serverless etc) Linux is fine, if you have to care about the kernel and hardware I'd pick FreeBSD 100% of the time. Also much easier to influence overall project direction and get patches integrated.