Software:List of BSD adopters
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This is a list of companies, organizations and individuals who have moved from other operating systems to a BSD system. In the open-source operating systems field, it can be an alternative to Linux distributions.
List
- WhatsApp infrastructure service is probably the most notable FreeBSD[1] example of adoption on its servers,[2] before switching to Linux after being acquired by Facebook.[3]
- Netflix runs its video-streaming service on FreeBSD servers[4] all over the world[5]
- Until its 3.0 version, Kylin was using FreeBSD as an operating system project in China.[6]
- Mindbridge, a software company, announced in September 2007 that it had migrated a large number of Windows servers onto a smaller number of Linux servers and a few BSD servers. It claims to have saved "bunches of money."[7]
- Dozen of industrial-products manufacturers, especially towards networks and IT-industries, runs FreeBSD on some of their appliances: Juniper, Cisco, NetApp, Dell, Panasonic.
- FreeBSD is used by Sony as the core of PlayStation console range, for their PS3,[8] PS4,[9] and the PS Vita[10]
- FreeBSD has been used by Manex Visual Effects for render farms on CGI-images in The Matrix and others films[11]
- Darwin, the fundamental software base of MacOS and iOS, is based on shared code of XNU, FreeBSD, and Mach kernel, by Avie Tevanian from Carnegie Mellon University[12]
- In 2024, Italian advisor Stefano Marinelli tells how he migrates major part of its client's servers,[13] IT hosters and services providers, to FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD,[14] shared with some Linux servers, for reliability.
- The Edgio Content Delivery Network (ex Limelight) uses FreeBSD to operate it's infrastructure.[15]
See also
- List of Linux adopters
- Adoption of free and open-source software by public institutions#Germany
References
- ↑ "WhatsApp". 2020-09-20. https://blog.whatsapp.com/1-million-is-so-2011.
- ↑ "> WhatsApp moved away from FreeBSD to Linux.". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028689.
- ↑ "DevConf.cz 2021: CentOS Stream at Facebook". 2021-01-24. https://devconfcz2021.sched.com/event/gmOa/centos-stream-at-facebook.
- ↑ "The "other" FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s from a single server :: FreeBSD Presentations and Papers". https://papers.freebsd.org/2022/eurobsdcon/gallatin-the_other_freebsd_optimizations-netflix/.
- ↑ "Netflix and FreeBSD: Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video :: FreeBSD Presentations and Papers". https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/fosdem/looney-netflix_and_freebsd/.
- ↑ ""Historic leap" for foreign military trainees". 2013-12-03. http://english.chinamil.com.cn/site2/columns/2006-02/14/content_420257.htm.
- ↑ "Linux.com :: Mindbridge switches to Linux, saves "bunches of money"". 2008-09-06. http://www.linux.com./feature/119020.
- ↑ "Open Source Software used in PlayStation®3" (in en-US). https://www.playstation.com/en-us/oss/ps3/.
- ↑ "Open Source Software Used in PlayStation®4" (in en-US). https://www.playstation.com/en-us/oss/ps4/.
- ↑ "Open Source Software Used in PlayStation®Vita" (in en-US). https://www.playstation.com/en-us/oss/ps-vita/.
- ↑ "FreeBSD Press Release: April 22, 1999" (in en). https://www.freebsd.org/press/press-rel-1/.
- ↑ "BSD Overview". 2018-11-07. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/BSD/BSD.html.
- ↑ "switching_from_linux_to_bsd/". https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/.
- ↑ "EuroBSDCon2024_Marinelli.pdf". https://it-notes.dragas.net/slides/EuroBSDCon2024_Marinelli.pdf.
- ↑ "FreeBSD Operations at Limelight Networks". https://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/attachments/325_bsdcan-llnw.pdf.
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