[geeks] Why Linux and not *BSD?

[geeks at litfire.com]

Kurt Huhn said:
>See!  SEEEE!!!!
>
> Those BigIP boxen were magnificent just the way they were.  Next I suppose
> someone will tell me that the Nokia IP-series boxen will be moving to
> Linux as well.

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