Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 01:11:06 -0500 From: Chris Laverdure <dashevil@sympatico.ca> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: BSD Success Stories Message-ID: <1080972666.77366.1.camel@elemental.DashEvil> In-Reply-To: <20040401220702.B56A86A832@smtp4.pacifier.net> References: <20040401220702.B56A86A832@smtp4.pacifier.net>
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On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 17:07, Charles Oppermann wrote: > >> > Roger and everyone - don't get me wrong, but as I already wrote it > somewhere: I am quite tired of "Yahoo runs FreeBSD" advocacy. In the > "ancient" times, their success story was very important for FreeBSD, as it > clearly showed, that they would be unable to accomplish their task the same > way, as they did it with FreeBSD - Linux was too immature at that time. > << > > I too wondered about Yahoo and FreeBSD. I guess when I hear the association > made, is that implying that FreeBSD is being used for development > internally, or intranet servers? > > When my browser connects to a yahoo.com server, what platform is that server > running? If it's FreeBSD, that's a huge deal. > > If it's a hodgepodge of platforms that serve up yahoo.com content, then is > there any idea of percentage that FreeBSD or others have? > > Never mind - I just found netcraft.com. Yep, Yahoo runs FreeBSD on it's > servers. > > Now, what I found very enlightening was the uptime statistics. In a ranking > of sites with the highest average uptimes, BSD owns the list. FreeBSD runs > on 7 of the top 25 sites for average uptime. BSD/OS runs on other 18. #5 > is amedas.wni.co.jp has been running FreeBSD continually for 1,612 days. > That's nearly 4 and half years! > Which also means that they haven't applied any kernel level patches for four and a half years? I really question those crazy high uptimes. > > > Charles Oppermann, charles@coppersoftware.com, > http://weblogs.asp.net/chuckop/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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