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		dillona on Dec 2, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Solaris being canned, at least 50% of teams to be... Is there public information available about why Netflix uses Linux as opposed to FreeBSD for those pieces of infrastructure?

empthought on Dec 2, 2016 [–]

Netflix runs Java and the Oracle JVM runs on Linux but not FreeBSD.

I have no information, but there aren't very many dots to connect here.

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