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geofft on Oct 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go home Twitter, you're drunk

It also doesn't look like the standard Linux uptime command, which uses "load average", singular. The BSDs, including OS X, say "load averages"... does Twitter run FreeBSD, or is this copied-and-pasted from an OS X client machine?

krschultz on Oct 20, 2014 | [–]

I thought Netflix used FreeBSD? https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/testimonials

geofft on Oct 20, 2014 | | [–]

Yeah, there are certainly a bunch of people running FreeBSD in production. I just didn't think Twitter was one of them.

mmmooo on Oct 20, 2014 | [–]

nice catch, I definitely think that would be the nail in this coffin.

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