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Maybe, still no evidence to back the speculation up.
by jaekash 6y ago
Maybe, still no evidence to back the speculation up.
- Annatar 6y agoThey have both Linux and FreeBSD, yet FreeBSD is the one they still use for streaming. A Linux-biased and centric shop like Netflix would ditch FreeBSD the first chance they had if it weren't better at it than Linux.
- jaekash 6y agoBoth of these things suggest they had many other reasons to chose FreeBSD, and neither suggests FreeBSD was faster than Linux: - https://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/Netflix-BSDCan-20130515.pdf https://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/Netflix-BSDCan-20130515.p... - https://youtu.be/KP_bKvXkoC4?t=732 https://youtu.be/KP_bKvXkoC4?t=732 Seems GPL was a problem for them. EDIT: another source suggesting GPL avoidance was the primary reason for choosing FreeBSD over Linux: https://youtu.be/vcyQBup-Gto?t=2731 https://youtu.be/vcyQBup-Gto?t=2731 - and the presenter also says that the performance comparisons they have done between Linux and FreeBSD is not exactly fair because they did not do all the engineering work on Linux that they did on FreeBSD.