Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:15:06 EDT From: TM4525@aol.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? Message-ID: <102.50fa4a10.2e9808fa@aol.com>
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In a message dated 10/8/04 2:42:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tedm@toybox.placo.com writes: > 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... > I'm sure that Yahoo, like any large commercial enterprise, has a whole host of specific customizations that they have applied to FreeBSD, and their version of FreeBSD doesen't look like what we have, at least not where the good bits are. Why would they customize a "beta", knowing that they'd just have to redo them when its released? I doubt they are that stupid. Also, If they've done substantial customization, then you really need to stop touting them as "using FreeBSD", don't you, since they are not using whats available to everyone else.
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