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    Facebook is hiring to make "the Linux kernel network stack rival or exceed that of FreeBSD" freebsd linux facebook.com
    journeysquid avatar via journeysquid 4 years ago | cached | 3 comments

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    trousers avatar trousers 4 years ago | link

    Makes me wonder why they don’t just use FreeBSD (or use and improve it).

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      ngrilly avatar ngrilly 4 years ago | link

      I don’t know. Maybe because they are deeply invested in Linux, and they think that the cost of improving the network stack will be lower than the cost of improving other things they will miss in FreeBSD?

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      notlaforge avatar notlaforge 4 years ago | link

      This was pretty surprising (to me anyway): “Improve IPv6 support in the kernel, and eliminate perf and stability issues. FB is one of the worlds largest IPv6 deployments”.