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I don't think it has a niche or role anymore. Some years ago they claimed to be fast. [0,1,2] I don't know where did you get that FreeBSD is regarded as the fa
by bmacho 4y ago
I don't think it has a niche or role anymore. Some years ago they claimed to be fast. [0,1,2]
I don't know where did you get that FreeBSD is regarded as the fast one. I think it is considered the popular/general purposed one, without a single aim like openBSD or netBSD have.
[0] : https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/ https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/
[1] : https://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/ https://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/
[2] : https://www.dragonflybsd.org/history/ https://www.dragonflybsd.org/history/
- amalgamated_inc 4y agoMaybe just cause allegedly Netflix uses it for servers.
- mistrial9 4y agosee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738
- nix23 4y ago>allegedly Netflix uses it for servers Not really "allegedly" as you can read here: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/#software https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/#software
- loeg 4y agoFreeBSD focuses on performance moreso than Net or OpenBSD.
- nix23 4y ago>Some years ago they claimed to be fast. It is fast, maybe the fastest of all BSD's: https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-eo2021/2 https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-eo2021/2
- bmacho 4y agoYou are right, it seems much faster than freeBSD in a lot of areas and relevant benchmarks (real world programs and scenarios). They got similar overall results, but as far as I see, freeBSD is mainly faster in irrelevant benchmarks. (This is an opinion based on a glance of the phoronix article. I haven't spent much time looking at the results, also I am not an expert at benchmarking.)
- nix23 4y agoI mean it's just impressive for such a small project, and benchmark's...well they just count for your very own workload..it's good to find regressions but not much else. BTW i run FreeBSD ;)