Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:14:35 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos <jorgeassembler1@outlook.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What operating system BSD that makes possible the existence of Internet? Message-ID: <20140315171435.98709b08.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <COL127-W18ADF6EA1A9DE700AD9F81E8730@phx.gbl> References: <COL127-W18ADF6EA1A9DE700AD9F81E8730@phx.gbl>
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On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 18:56:21 +0300, Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote: > I know that the BSD makes possible the existence of the Internet > and e-mails. OpenBSD not ended because someone came to pay their > account energy. They are running build servers in "real hardware" for some very specific architectures (e. g. Sun Sparc), so moving them to an untrusted place hasn't been an option for the decision makers. > If OpenBSD had been terminated, the Internet continue to exist? Sure. OpenBSD (and other BSDs) are in place at many points where you would not expect them, and they will continue running. Also the source code is out there, that's why saying "being terminated" would not really fit. OpenBSD won't go away just because some bill is not payed. :-) > What operating system BSD that makes possible the existence > of Internet? Next to OpenBSD, I'd say NetBSD and FreeBSD. They are already vital components in many appliances and "lower level servers". There are also many Linux solutions in enterprise-grade and home-consumer-grade devices. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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