From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 15:17:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA23D106566B for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:17:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C998FC0C for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:17:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnp1 with SMTP id p1so13514237ggn.13 for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:17:28 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.17.195 with SMTP id q3mr62725860igd.11.1325603847518; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:17:27 -0800 (PST) Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.231.77.5 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 07:17:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120103161452.3b10bb2f.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4EFF19A7.2060800@ose.nl> <4EFF94CA.3050304@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120101064247.3e8b0b56@scorpio> <4F00580D.1060208@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120101091420.117aa8f3@scorpio> <20120102065526.GA16481@hemlock.hydra> <20120102083114.6c09d839@scorpio> <20120102193319.GA31717@hemlock.hydra> <20120103020611.GA22209@chancha.local> <4F02A306.5060501@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120103161452.3b10bb2f.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 10:17:27 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: BY9eZTumkjTDMLdlvMgOnPV8JUE Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Mark Felder , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:17:29 -0000 On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:01:47 -0600, Mark Felder wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:46:54 -0600, Alejandro Imass wrote: >> >> > I would just like to add that is FreeBSD was so crappy open sour >> > software, why does it run half the Internet? >> >> This must be a mistake. I was just assured this weekend that FreeBSD is a >> niche OS. > > Maybe consider the chance that a FreeBSD OS can be > turned into closed source (which the license explicitely > allows) and put into some embedded device, a router, > a DSL modem, a managed switch... In parts like this, > you won't recognize FreeBSD anymore. If you consider > such devices "niche devices", think again: You'll > find them near any Internet-connected computer and > among the bowels of the whole Internet. :-) > Apple's OS X and iOS for starters. It was heavily based on *BSD, including parts of FBSD