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submitted 10 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Jails, bsd is really good at jails and networking

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    But Linux also has containers and I haven't found a networking setup I can't do with it so while this may be true it seems anecdotal

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Really good network stack. Linux is catching up surely but places like Netflix run a ton of stuff on BSD simply for that stack. AFAIK ebpf is supposedly the thing that will have Linux compete in this space- https://dev.to/dpuig/understanding-ebpf-a-game-changer-for-linux-kernel-extensions-4m7i

    For a normal person? I'd argue there's about zero benefit to running BSD over some Linux distro. Less people use jails compared to containers, networking doesn't matter like you said, and hardware support is far more awful in terms of drivers. There's a reason there's like 2-3 desktop oriented distros on BSD compared to hundreds on Linux.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Really good network stack. Linux is catching up surely but places like Netflix run a ton of stuff on BSD simply for that stack.

    Depends on the specific BSD, OpenBSD for example is only just now catching up to Linux.

    Edit: Slide 28 for a graph

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