# help

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/help/2089>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [November 3, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/help/2089 "2011-11-03T17:18:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/help/2089/1 "2011-11-03T17:18:41Z")

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Historically, many Bro sites have been running FreeBSD for one reason  
or another. At some point, capture performance was much better on  
FreeBSD, though today the picture is less clear (and Linux has some  
features now that BSD doesn't).

Robin

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/help/2089/2 "2022-05-06T15:39:57Z")

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