Facebook Is Hiring To Make Linux Networking Better Than FreeBSD

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Facebook Is Hiring To Make Linux Networking Better Than FreeBSD

Facebook is hiring another Linux kernel engineer to join its growing kernel team. The goal for the new employee will be to make "the Linux kernel network stack to rival or exceed that of FreeBSD" and carry out other improvements to the Linux network stack...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc1NjY

[BSDude]

Gets hired to improve the Linux network stack, ends up migrating all servers to FreeBSD

[Drago]

Gets hired to improve the Linux network stack, ends up migrating all servers to FreeBSD

Only in your wet dreams dude!
Haters gonna hate, hackers gonna hack, and BSD is gonna suck..

[Modu]

Gets hired to improve the Linux network stack, ends up migrating all servers to FreeBSD

But the point is there is a demand for Linux even though "FreeBSD's network stack better than Linux' " claim.

[kaprikawn]

Genuine question, what's so good about BSDs network stack (i.e. what makes it so superior to Linux)?

[uid313]

Genuine question, what's so good about BSDs network stack (i.e. what makes it so superior to Linux)?

Personally, I don't know anything about FreeBSD.
But I found an interesting post on Slashdot.

http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5500381&cid=47615685

[Guest]

Gets hired to improve the Linux network stack, ends up migrating all servers to FreeBSD

Keep dreaming. Linux beat it years ago. That's why companies migrate their servers to Linux and that's why Linux server market share is MUCH higher than BSD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Servers_on_the_Internet

[Guest]

Personally, I don't know anything about FreeBSD.
But I found an interesting post on Slashdot.

http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...1&cid=47615685

It's a trolls post. According to netcraft Linux is much more robust and stable. It always dominates the first ten most reliable servers in their sourvey. This job offer is a joke or comes from a bsd fanboy. Why didn't they choose FreeBSD instead of Linux? The answer is simple: Linux is better.

[jrch2k8]

It's a trolls post. According to netcraft Linux is much more robust and stable. It always dominates the first ten most reliable servers in their sourvey. This job offer is a joke or comes from a bsd fanboy. Why didn't they choose FreeBSD instead of Linux? The answer is simple: Linux is better.

well is true BSD can reach higher throughput using a lot less CPU cycles when certain threshold is reached in ultra fast connections with several thousand queues but that is about it, so normally you have BSD in those cases as front end and Linux behind to handle that data.

[paintbynumbers]

My employer uses mostly Linux servers but BSD is used in places because of the BSD implementation of carp (for failover) has been more reliable than the Linux equivalent so far.