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Doesn't FreeBSD run the very site you're on? Distrowatch recently switched to it (which IMO is a bit ironic, although they list BSDs as distros too). There's b
by takeda 7y ago
Doesn't FreeBSD run the very site you're on? Distrowatch recently switched to it (which IMO is a bit ironic, although they list BSDs as distros too).
There's bunch of companies that use and regularly contribute to the code:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nutshell.html#introduction-nutshell-users https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/n...
Also: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/ https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/
(I would imagine that company that donate have interest too keep it alive because they use it)
Apple doesn't disclose much about their infrastructure, but they did post jobs looking for FreeBSD admins so I would imagine they don't have a negligible number of them.
WhatsApp was running primarily on FreeBSD (not sure how it is now)
- coldtea 7y ago>Doesn't FreeBSD run the very site you're on? So? As a feat is even less impressive that the one we just rejected as some major sign of it being a success (Netflix running FreeBSD). I'm sure it also runs a lot more of servers. But it's less prevalent that it used to be, and Linux has eaten almost everything in that space. Enumerating success stories is the first sign of a project with few of them (Linux doesn't have to enumerate how many companies use it). It's the same for language. C or Java don't need a "success stories" page. But niche languages will invariantly have one, and tout it as some proof that they're widely used...