[cageface]

I was in devops in a Dotcom in the 1999-2000 era. Back then Linux was still a pretty shaky server OS. In particular the network and NFS stacks were unstable and slow. We originally tried to deploy on Linux but had to switch to FreeBSD to get a stable environment.

But Linux has come a long way since then. The major issues have been resolved and IMO the overwhelmingly larger ecosystem Linux enjoys outweighs most if not all advantages FreeBSD might still have on a technical level.

[coroutines]

However much I hate the politics surrounding Docker and systemd, they have done a LOT for Linux to provide a standardized way to configure most distros and reliably deploy apps/stacks. I still feel that tuning Linux for networking is not an easy thing to learn about.