Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

[David Magda]

On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote:

> If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links on the
> OpenConnect web site.

Out of curiosity, given that Linux seems popular in so many other places (Google, Facebook), is there any particular reason why FreeBSD was chosen for this?

I'm sure Linux is used in many other places (much of Netflix's IT infrastructure is on Amazon IIRC), so I'm kind of surprised that they went with FreeBSD when they probably already have so much knowledge with Linux.