From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 17:04:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8257A16A4D1 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:04:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from xenial.mcc.ac.uk (xenial.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3536143D55 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:04:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by xenial.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1CFyAL-0005MF-00; Fri, 08 Oct 2004 18:04:25 +0100 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i98H4PYu041217; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:04:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id i98H4OXg041216; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:04:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:04:24 +0100 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Message-ID: <20041008170424.GD19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <4163F3EB.3030208@trini0.org> <20041008162604.GB19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4166C415.5090507@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4166C415.5090507@daleco.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: Gerard Samuel cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Ted Mittelstaedt cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:04:26 -0000 On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:45:09AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : : >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? : > : > : : Not necessarily. It wouldn't be too difficult at all to even roll their own : release, with all their custom patches, or set up their own source : repo with the patches in place and do cvsup et al from their own : servers. There are lots of possibilities; the fact that I don't necessarily : know what they all are doesn't negate the probability that they exist. I mean keeping their source synced with the 'official' source. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.