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The web run on Linux like most FANG servers do, so it makes sense with the $$$ / people / R&D that this OS is faster. A conservative number would be that 99.9% of the web runs on Linux and it's probably much higher.

At the scale of Google / MS / Amazon / Apple if servers would run faster of BSD* they would use it. We're talking about 10's millions of servers here.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-eo2021/7

It gives you a pretty clear picture.



Based on that logic, Windows is the superior operating system and always has been, because it's always been used by more people on their desktop than anything else.

There are a lot more factors involved in OS choice that could drive popularity other than the speed of the network stack. And BTW, Hotmail runs on BSD. MacOS is a fork of BSD. And Yahoo ran on BSD (and may still).


I did not even mention all the Android phones 1B+ running Linux. Also all the top 500 HPC runs Linux: https://www.top500.org/statistics/details/osfam/1/

Hotmail running BSD is dead, I doubt MS is using BSD at all, they're using the same stuff as outlook.com which is not BSD.

I'm not saying Linux is better, just it is overall faster because an order of magnitude more $$$ and contribution.


Netflix distributes a fairly large chunk of the internet traffic and they do it using FreeBSD.

I suspect most system administrators and engineers use Linux because that's what everyone else is using.




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