From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 16:32:34 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 E341E16A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:32:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yearning.mcc.ac.uk (yearning.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E78C43D1D for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:32:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by yearning.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1CFEiP-000Ce9-00; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:32:33 +0100 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i96GWWYu089874; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:32:32 +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 i96GWW1q089873; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:32:32 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:32:32 +0100 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Gerard Samuel Message-ID: <20041006163232.GA89841@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20041005160132.GC73819@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20041005160744.GA57375@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041006115704.GA86967@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4163F3EB.3030208@trini0.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4163F3EB.3030208@trini0.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:32:35 -0000 On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:32:27AM -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : >On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:07:44AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: : >: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:01:32PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : >: > : >: > I would expect they are running 4.x, but does anyone know if they have : >: > migrated any production boxes to 5.x? Are they contributing any code : >to : >: > either branch? : >: : >: Yes, a number of committers work for Yahoo. : > : >Any idea if they are running 5.x in production yet? : > : : Here is a thought. : Why would they be running a pre-production release as a production : server???? : I have no idea what yahoo does, but I think it would be irrespondsible : for them to attempt using 5.x on a production machine... Possibly they would just use it on a few machines for non-critical purposes. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.