From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Aug 3 03:30:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA02731 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 03:30:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (intschool.easynet.co.uk [194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA02726 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 03:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@helan.org) Received: from helan.org (bamboo.tis [10.0.0.70]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22798; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 11:26:37 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35C590B4.D718D7CC@helan.org> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 11:28:04 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric S. Raymond" CC: Francisco Reyes , "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: branding References: <199808011634.JAA06160@newsguy.com> <19980801125556.A20894@snark.thyrsus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > By "used" I don't mind they have a test box in a dusty corner. I mean > > companies like Yahoo which run their business (all their http servers > > with FreeBSD) on Open Source programs. > > I'm willing to carry stuff like this. Yahoo's case study is already on > the site. How about the imagebase at http://www.thinker.org/ ? I think their database is already larger than Terraserver (don't let that reference put you off, try it - there is absolutely *no* comparison :-) and growing. Details of the Berkeley CS Tertiary Disk project that it runs on are at http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Td/ (follow 'architecture of our prototype' link for the rather impressive pictures, OS and hardware details - for anyone interested, they use FreeBSD-current on 20x P6-200's, 98mb ram each, two PC's to a SCSI chain, and 370 8gb disks...) Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message