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Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD’s strategic move toward broader adoption (freebsdfoundation.org)

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

pfSense and OPNsense are both BSD, and they are pretty popular routing/firewall systems.
BSD also has jails, which are pretty popular.
Netflix uses FreeBSD for some of their systems.
PS4 was based on FreeBSD.

I don't think it's on it's way out.
It still has a place

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Interesting. Thank you for the insights. Now I have to look up why Netflix uses BSD...

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

https://freebsdfoundation.org/netflix-case-study/

However https://lobste.rs/s/wh6yhk/why_we_run_freebsd_current_at_netflix has some more discussion.

Seems like BSD was the right answer when they started running a CDN. They developed a strong BSD team that contributes to upstream. At this point, retooling to use another OS is probably a massive investment for questionable gain (like, what would the benefits be?!).

Ultimately, they chose BSD, developed BSD, contributed to BSD.
At this point, it's a custom shoe they have helped design, and it fits like a glove. Or something