Maintaining the world’s fastest CDN at Netflix on FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.org)

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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

I would like to know why they prefer FreeBSD to Linux.

[+] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[-] turing_spider574@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

FreeBSD uses the BSD license: https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license/

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 7 points 2 months ago

Uhm. AFAIK, you only have to share code under the GPL if you distribute binaries outside your organisation.

If it stays in-house, there's no distribution, thus no requirement to share the source.

I'm happy to be wrong, feel free to point out what I missed.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

White what you say is true, I feel like this has more to do with their engineers being better at or more comfortable with FreeBSD or something like that.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

I'd say we don't know unless we ask Netflix engineers but the comments about license look like a good one to me. Then there is in my opinion the "bloated" Linux versus the more clean BSD experience (I am a Linux user and I like to tinker with BSD sometimes). Maybe it is still true that BSD will not run on as much hardware as Linux does but have you ever compiled a custom kernel on BSD and compared it to compiling a custom kernel on Linux ? On BSD it is in comparison much easier and the documentation is usually really good.