[HN Gopher] Our Journey Through Linux/Unix Landscapes
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       Our Journey Through Linux/Unix Landscapes
        
       Author : alekq
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2025-05-20 21:16 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | jmclnx wrote:
       | Funny, but no Slackware :)
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       | But FreeBSD is a good choice, but its pf seems a bit outdated. Or
       | should we consider FreeBSD's pf a fork of OpenBSD's and a
       | different product ?
        
       | rbanffy wrote:
       | Bashing Linux distros gets old very quickly.
        
       | mvanveen wrote:
       | I thought it was funny they spent so much time bashing choice of
       | distro and highlighting various performance considerations only
       | to pick Alpine?
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       | Alpine linux uses musl as its libc, which contrary to the
       | articles' claims (unless I'm missing new information?) can have
       | severe performance implications in many production settings.
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       | update: I found this April 2025 blog post where someone performed
       | some benchmarks and found that musl runtime performance is still
       | pretty far behind glibc:
       | https://edu.chainguard.dev/chainguard/chainguard-images/abou...
        
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