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Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD’s strategic move toward broader adoption
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this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2024
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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
Interesting. Thank you for the insights. Now I have to look up why Netflix uses BSD...
Anti Commercial-AI license
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