Miek Gieben1d ago
Omg... Freebsd is still using shell scripts for startup and shutdown...
Show threadJames Just James1d ago
@miekg Also nobody is still using BSD. Well very few anyways.
Show threadSafigo20h ago

@purpleidea @miekg I remember FreeBSD used to be used for routers and other networking solutions due to more efficient optimizations.

But is there use cases when FreeBSD is still better than Linux?

* FreeBSD, OpenBSD, any bsd kernel-based.

#bsd #freebsd #linux #openbsd

Show threadcurtosis19h ago

@safigo @purpleidea @miekg Still very much the case.

OPNsense is FreeBSD-based. So is Juniper’s JunOS.

AIUI there are some exceptions for unusual/proprietary network silicon, but the BSD network stack is still where you go for high performance and stability.

Show threadJames Just James19h ago
@curtosis @safigo @miekg The commercial vendors that are using BSD aren't doing it for performance they're doing it because they want the avoid the GPL and keep things proprietary.
Show threadcurtosis
@purpleidea @safigo @miekg That’s one benefit for proprietary systems vendors, but that doesn’t mean it’s not *also* more performant.
Mar 21 at 9:21pmIvory for iOS
Show threadJames Just James19h ago
@curtosis @safigo @miekg The performance comes from the ASIC. We'd have better networking in those respects if Broadcom would release docs and let people program chips like the Tridents... Linux is making headway anyways with switchdev. Check it out. Society could be solving more interesting problems than secret silicon hiding.