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From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: WhistleJets (was Re: Another Linux Religious war) 
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> : They have no problems running FreeBSD on the box seperating this nice
> : critical network from the rest of the internet :) It handles all their
> : email and web (and soon will become three boxes, one for lot of virtual
> : webserving, one for email and one as a firewall).
> : 
> : Just another place where FreeBSD is used. :)
> : 
> 
> Sounds just like a WhistleJet, only w/o the custom hardware.  A lot of
> places will be able to say that if Whistle is successful.  They have a
> really cool box.

Yep, as I've been told :)

I know a lot of places are making up their own solutions, I know at least
a major ISP in Perth is marketing the "Phoenix" server which does
basically the same as the WhistleJet, but with Linux instead.


Adrian