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chris_j | 7 months ago

What happened? Did they stop using FreeBSD? Did they continue to use it but jsut stop contributing?

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otterley|7 months ago

Yes, we migrated over to Linux for a number of reasons, among them 1/higher developer mindshare, and 2/Linux had better SMP performance for the first decade or so vs. FreeBSD as we started to buy beefier multi-core and multi-socket servers.

ksec|7 months ago

I thought it was Marisa Meyer that forced the change?