Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:57:32 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Large FreeBSD Users / Impressive Metrics Message-ID: <200409071457.32711.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040907183509.GD8296@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20040907183509.GD8296@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tuesday 07 September 2004 02:35 pm, Murray Stokely wrote: > I'm working on updating our advocacy material used on the website, in > the Handbook, and now in a set of generic slides that can be used or > adapted for presentations. > > If you have ideas about cool new functionality that we should do a > better job of touting, know of large FreeBSD users (I could especially > use more pointers to embedded uses of FreeBSD), or otherwise have > impressive statistics or benchmarks that we should be getting more > leverage out of, please let me know. The Weather Channel uses FreeBSD to do realtime audio/video presentation in hundreds of locations across the US serving content to millions of cable and satellite customers in a "smart device". (I'm not sure a 4U box really qualifies as "embedded", at least via traditional definitions of "embedded". :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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