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From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:39:05PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
: I'm sure that Yahoo, like any large commercial enterprise, has a whole
: host of specific customizations that they have applied to FreeBSD,
: and their version of FreeBSD doesen't look like what we have, at least not
: where the good bits are.

I wonder.  Wouldn't that make keeping up-to-date a lot more difficult?  I
would think most of the mods would be in the apps running on the OS.


jm
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