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> Wind River Systems and other vendors will sell FreeBSD CDs, and there are
> examples of dedicated systems using FreeBSD that come to mind, such as the
> Nokia IP firewall platform.  Or were you talking about a "commercial
distro"
> in terms of "a company that provides/charges for technical support"...?
:-)

Yes, something like that. I guess so far it has been done only with
Linux-based systems, eh? I couldn't find any RedHat-like vendors out there.
Anyway, it was just a dumb newbie question for better "insight" as to what's
out there...