Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:04:24 +0100 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? Message-ID: <20041008170424.GD19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <4166C415.5090507@daleco.biz> References: <4163F3EB.3030208@trini0.org> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEHEEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20041008162604.GB19310@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4166C415.5090507@daleco.biz>
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:45:09AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: : 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 mean keeping their source synced with the 'official' source. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.
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