From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 5 19:23:58 1995 Return-Path: chat-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA12276 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 19:23:58 -0700 Received: from lisa.rur.com (G338.257.InterLink.NET [199.202.234.53]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA12268 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 19:23:54 -0700 Received: (from leo@localhost) by lisa.rur.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA00591; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 22:23:27 GMT Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 22:23:27 +0000 () From: Leo Papandreou To: Brian Tao cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yahoo is crediting FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: chat-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 6 Aug 1995, Brian Tao wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Leo Papandreou wrote: > > > > So I was browsing their new interface yesterday, interested in the > > details of their new corporate structure, when I came upon mention > > that they're using FreeBSD for some of their web servers. Dont know > > if this is old news to everyone else but it was pretty cool to see. > > Where is this information? I looked around briefly and couldn't > find any mention of it. Perhaps someone should contact them and find > out exactly what kind of hardware they have and the amount of load http://www.yahoo.com Bottom of the page, follow the link pointed to by the word "contributors," http://beta.yahoo.com/docs/pr/credits.html. Also http://beta.yahoo.com/docs/info/faq.html#system explains their server setup: An SGI and several intel boxes. They also mention that they run a customized http server. This is a guess but I dont think that means the core code is better than NCSA or Apache or Netsite; they've probably removed a few if/else's and other general purpose feautures and replaced them with hardwired code peculiar to their setup.