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Other than a few niche areas like Netflix and Playstation or even MacOS as some like to often put fourth as examples of how great it is… yeah.
by sharts 11mo ago
Other than a few niche areas like Netflix and Playstation or even MacOS as some like to often put fourth as examples of how great it is…
yeah.
- artyom 11mo agoOr that niche app called Whatsapp
- Gud 11mo agoIf I recall correctly, they’ve moved to Linux
- f1shy 11mo agoAlso Redit started as "some BSD boxes" The problem is, when a project scales up, at some moment you will need "commodity" sys admins, so it is easier to just go for linux. Also as the project gets bigger, at some point somebody will come with the idea to move to linux.
- sixdonuts 11mo agoThe BSD/Illumos OSs are used quite frequently as the base OS for high end commercial/enterprise network, SAN, NAS etc. solutions. They are chosen for it's performance, stability and HA features.