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There is a variant of FreeBSD with terrific graphics support, and although limited to just one hardware vendor, there’s no doubting its popularity: it’s in ever
by inopinatus 7y ago
There is a variant of FreeBSD with terrific graphics support, and although limited to just one hardware vendor, there’s no doubting its popularity: it’s in every PlayStation 4.
There’s FreeBSD in almost every data centre. But it’s at a level most application developers just never see. Many infrastructure elements - from storage heads, to core routers, to enterprise application and security appliances - have chosen FreeBSD as the high quality, reliable, consistent, and liberally licensed base for their control plane software.
The point being, this is where FreeBSD has the greatest influence and adoption: as a platform, not the product, and not at all obvious even to those that thereby rely upon it.
That being said, yes it works great as the instance OS in EC2 and as a die-hard acolyte since 2.1-RELEASE you’ll pry my production application jails from my cold dead hands
- musicale 7y agoWhat about the Nintendo Switch?
- inopinatus 7y agoI don't think we need enumerate every known FreeBSD derivative to make the point.
- thejsa 7y agoThe Switch doesn't run on FreeBSD but rather a custom microkernel operating system called Horizon, which is an evolution of the OS on the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo do use some code from the FreeBSD kernel in the network / sockets stack though - https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Sockets_services https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Sockets_services
- jcelerier 7y ago> There is a variant of FreeBSD with terrific graphics support, and although limited to just one hardware vendor, there’s no doubting its popularity: it’s in every PlayStation 4. And since FreeBSD is not GPL-licensed, it has exactly zero relevance as it means that no "lambda person" can use it, write code against it, etc... without paying the 2500$ of a devkit. Sony could write their proprietary drivers for any OS - just look at nvidia which uses the same driver with just a microscopic shim across linux and windows.
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