From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 16:45:14 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 0C03816A4CF for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:45:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5B643D45 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:45:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:41:37 -0500 Message-ID: <4166C415.5090507@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:45:09 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick References: <4163F3EB.3030208@trini0.org> <20041008162604.GB19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20041008162604.GB19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Oct 2004 16:41:37.0845 (UTC) FILETIME=[AE212650:01C4AD55] cc: Gerard Samuel cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Ted Mittelstaedt 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: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:45:14 -0000 Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:39:05PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >: 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. > >I wonder. Wouldn't that make keeping up-to-date a lot more difficult? > > Not necessarily. It wouldn't be too difficult at all to even roll their own release, with all their custom patches, or set up their own source repo with the patches in place and do cvsup et al from their own servers. There are lots of possibilities; the fact that I don't necessarily know what they all are doesn't negate the probability that they exist. >I would think most of the mods would be in the apps running on the OS. Can't say on that one. FBSD, IIRC and didn't misunderstand, runs a customized Apache, so it's not out of the realm of reason either. Kevin Kinsey