List of BSD adopters
This is a list of companies, organizations and individuals who have moved from other operating systems to a BSD system. In the open-source operating systems field, it can be an alternative to Linux distributions.
List
[edit]- WhatsApp infrastructure service is probably the most notable FreeBSD[1] example of adoption on its servers,[2] before switching to Linux after being acquired by Facebook.[3]
- Netflix runs its video-streaming service on FreeBSD servers[4] all over the world[5]
- Until its 3.0 version, Kylin was using FreeBSD as an operating system project in China.[6]
- Mindbridge, a software company, announced in September 2007 that it had migrated a large number of Windows servers onto a smaller number of Linux servers and a few BSD servers. It claims to have saved "bunches of money."[7]
- Dozen of industrial-products manufacturers, especially towards networks and IT-industries, runs FreeBSD on some of their appliances: Juniper, Cisco, NetApp, Dell, Panasonic.
- FreeBSD is used by Sony as the core of PlayStation console range, for their PS3,[8] PS4,[9] and the PS Vita[10]
- FreeBSD has been used by Manex Visual Effects for render farms on CGI-images in The Matrix and others films[11]
- Darwin, the fundamental software base of MacOS and iOS, is based on shared code of XNU, FreeBSD, and Mach kernel, by Avie Tevanian from Carnegie Mellon University[12]
- In 2024, Italian advisor Stefano Marinelli tells how he migrates major part of its client's servers,[13] IT hosters and services providers, to FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD,[14] shared with some Linux servers, for reliability.
- The Edgio Content Delivery Network (ex Limelight) uses FreeBSD to operate it's infrastructure[15].
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "WhatsApp". 2020-09-20. Archived from the original on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ^ "> WhatsApp moved away from FreeBSD to Linux".
- ^ "DevConf.cz 2021: CentOS Stream at Facebook". 2021-01-24. Archived from the original on 2021-01-24. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ^ "The "other" FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s from a single server :: FreeBSD Presentations and Papers". papers.freebsd.org. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ "Netflix and FreeBSD: Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video :: FreeBSD Presentations and Papers". papers.freebsd.org. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ ""Historic leap" for foreign military trainees". 2013-12-03. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ "Linux.com :: Mindbridge switches to Linux, saves "bunches of money"". 2008-09-06. Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ "Open Source Software used in PlayStation®3". PlayStation. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ "Open Source Software Used in PlayStation®4". PlayStation. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ "Open Source Software Used in PlayStation®Vita". PlayStation. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ "FreeBSD Press Release: April 22, 1999". The FreeBSD Project. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ "BSD Overview". 2018-11-07. Archived from the original on 2018-11-07. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ "switching_from_linux_to_bsd/".
- ^ "EuroBSDCon2024_Marinelli.pdf" (PDF).
- ^ "FreeBSD Operations at Limelight Networks" (PDF).
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