[geeks] Why Linux and not *BSD?

[geeks at litfire.com]

James Fogg
>> One of the benefits $employer sees in the move to Linux is
>> the fact that under version 9 (with Linux), the BigIP has JRE
>> 1.4.2, which allows us to use "External" monitors to check
>> the health of an application with a Java API.  That wasn't
>> about to happen with their hacked up BSDI.
>>
>> -Anthony
>
>You work for F5?
>
>Tell me you're not Anthony Gerace (sorry I butchered the spelling).

No on both counts.  But my employer's incentive to upgrade from a perfectly
happily running BSD to v9 on Linux was the availability of the JVM.

-Anthony