Bsd Now

This week, Allan is out of town at another Developer Summit, but we have a great episode coming This episode was brought to you by iX Systems Mission Complete (https://www.ixsystems.com/missioncomplete/) Submit your story of how you accomplished a mission with FreeBSD, FreeNAS, or iXsystems hardware, and you could win monthly prizes, and have your story featured in the FreeBSD Journal! *** Headlines WhatsApp founder, on how it got so HUGE (http://www.wired.com/2015/10/whatsapps-co-founder-on-how-the-iconoclastic-app-got-huge/) Wired has interviewed WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, about the infrastructure behind WhatsApp WhatsApp manages 900 million users with a team of 50, while Twitter needs around 4,000 employees to manage 300 million users. “FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability. We find managing FreeBSD installations to be quite straightforward.” “Linux is a beast of complexity. FreeBSD has the advantage of being a single distribution with an extraordinarily good ports