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Netflix is the other FreeBSD based service that many people dont know about. While the control plane is the much hyped Linux on AWS stuff, the actual streams ar
by justincormack 12y ago
Netflix is the other FreeBSD based service that many people dont know about. While the control plane is the much hyped Linux on AWS stuff, the actual streams are FreeBSD boxes in ISPs[1].
[1] https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/software/index.html https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/software/index.html
- tachion 12y agoThere's also Juniper, EMC2, Apple, Yahoo (back in the day, at least), Sony PlayStation and many, many others.
- justincormack 12y agoI would only really count Juniper in that list, building on and with FreeBSD. Apple take some bits but their product is not really FreeBSD (alas) and they dont seem to give back. AFAIK EMC and Yahoo are ex-users now, or largely.
- feld 12y agoEMC Isilon still uses FreeBSD. There are employees who are also FreeBSD developers. They're working hard on giving back changes so they can jump to a much newer FreeBSD release. Yahoo's FreeBSD isn't dead; YBSD! still exists too.
- adamnemecek 12y agoAlso HN :-)