The v2.0.x releases are all very close to the same code Yahoo! has successfully been using internally for years. [...]
Portability - the 2.0.x releases should build on most common Linux flavors. The upcoming 2.1.0 release also builds on many more UNIX platforms, such as Solaris, FreeBSD, and MacOSX.
kpedersen said:I think there was a similar thread here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=13226
jgh said:I know an engineer over at Zimbra, that is owned by Yahoo. He mentioned to me about 1 1/2 years ago that they were phasing out FreeBSD. I could ping him and see if this is still the case. I really hope it isn't.
phoenix said:Nope, Yahoo! sold Zimbra last year to VMWare. Zimbra 7.0 is a VMWare release.
I couldn't really tell ya, actually. Casually I've seen mainly rhel and less bsd, but I don't spend time at that part of the stack, so I'm not a good or quotable source.
" said:Today, at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, Sven Dummer, Director of Linux engineering at Yahoo!, explained that 75% of Yahoo’s Web sites and services run on Linux. The rest? It runs on FreeBSD.
vermaden said:Seems that only 25% of YAHOO! is FreeBSD.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/yahoo-the-linux-company/8618 said:Today, at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, Sven Dummer, Director of Linux engineering at Yahoo!, explained that 75% of Yahoo’s Web sites and services run on Linux. The rest? It runs on FreeBSD.
I haven't checked mate.Fred said:Is there a complete transcript of Sven's talk available?
captobvious said:Any other high profile companies publicly use FreeBSD?
drhowarddrfine said:We shouldn't be getting ourselves down because of this. Many quality products aren't used as much, or even fail in the market place, as those that are popular. As some have said, what has made Linux popular may be to its detriment. Being popular with amateurs should not be a goal but frequently these amateurs become professionals and they use what they're familiar with. Why else would you see Windows in some technical environments where it just seems out of place? Many Linux coders are transplanted Windows coders who try to make Linux work like Windows.
I don't want to make it sound like I'm going off on Linux or start a flame war, I'm not, but trying to make a point.
pkubaj said:How could Yahoo have used FreeBSD for over 20 years if FreeBSD project was created in 1993 (18 years ago)?