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Facebook Seeks Devs To Make Linux Network Stack As Good As FreeBSD's

• sararschreiber 12y ago
  • Have code already in the Linux kernel means there is at most 4035 people who qualify: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/contributors https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/contributors
  • wwwhatcrack 12y ago
    I don't get it
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• SEJeff 12y ago
  Does the FBSD tcp/ip stack really rival Linux's? Look at virtually all of the network vendors (Intel, Mellanox, solarflare, Broadcom, etc). They al develop primarily or exclusively on Linux. Some super advanced features like tx and receive side steering I'm pretty sure don't exist in FBSD and there is a lot of academic research into bufferbloat or tcp congestion algorithms. This mostly exclusively happens on Linux. FreeBSD is fantastic, as is OpenBSD, but the development on Linux simply dwarfs everything.