From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 19:57:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E5216A4D0 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:57:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2.speakeasy.net (mail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B87A43D58 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:57:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 4541 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2004 19:57:19 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 7 Sep 2004 19:57:18 -0000 Received: from [10.50.40.210] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i87Jv1Fo006626; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:57:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:57:32 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040907183509.GD8296@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040907183509.GD8296@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409071457.32711.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org cc: Murray Stokely Subject: Re: Large FreeBSD Users / Impressive Metrics X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:57:19 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org