On Monday, May 09, 2011 04:45:36 PM Kevin Oberman wrote: > Depends on what he is doing. BSDs tend to be far more mature than any > Linux. They are poor systems for desktops or anything like that. They > are heavily used as servers by many vary large providers and as the > basis for many products like Ironport (Cisco) and JunOS (Juniper).
Cisco had an RHEL rebuild (internal) at one time, called, refreshingly enough, Cisco Enterprise Linux. Cisco also uses/used a Linux base for their Content Engines and subsequent ACNS-running boxen. The rather high-priced ADVA-sourced Cisco Metro 1500 DWDM boxes used a 486 ISA single-board computer running off of DiskOnChip SSD for control and SNMP. Having said that, I'd be just about as comfortable with a BSD as with a Linux. And I do, and will continue to, run CentOS in production.
