Ironically you can’t use FreeBSD (or any BSD) to watch Netflix content. Even on Linux the resolution and bitrate get limited. What a fucking joke.
OSS is only good when they can save money with it, apparently
Fun fact: WhatsApp also used to run their servers on FreeBSD. Then Facebook bought them and now they use Linux.
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We did not make a technical choice to abandon FreeBSD in favor or something else, we made an organizational choice to abandon external hosting in favor of owned and operated hosting which required a lot of technical changes, one of which was switching operating systems.
I think Varnish can do 1Tbps with a off the shelf Linux without any special hw/firmware.
I would like to know why they prefer FreeBSD to Linux.
Because FreeBSD uses MIT license whereas GNU/Linux uses GPLv2. The difference between them is that with GPLv2 you have to share source code if you modify anything but in MIT license you can change anything you want and charge ppl and not share source code. That’s why a lot of corps like to use FreeBSD. I know that Netflix contributes to FreeBSD but I’m also sure they hide a lot of things.
FreeBSD uses the BSD license: https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license/
