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Udo Schröter (Trionic Technologies) wrote:
[ ... ]
> Btw, I looked really carefully and couldn't find any FreeBSD-based
> commercial distro (if you don't count OS X). Am I just to stupid to find one
> or is this an idea whose time has not come yet?

Wind River Systems and other vendors will sell FreeBSD CDs, and there are 
examples of dedicated systems using FreeBSD that come to mind, such as the 
Nokia IP firewall platform.  Or were you talking about a "commercial distro" 
in terms of "a company that provides/charges for technical support"...?  :-)

-- 
-Chuck