What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

John P. Campbell jpc at xzuberant.com
Thu Oct 7 06:22:27 PDT 2004


On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:10:17PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 11:01, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> > I would expect they are running 4.x, but does anyone know if they
> > have migrated any production boxes to 5.x?  Are they contributing
> > any code to either branch?
> >
> > jm
> 
> I am far from authoritative in this area, but I would be surprised if 
> yahoo runs on a "stock" release of FreeBSD.

Not sure if this is any indication, but ...

Overture is a customer of ours, and after the acquisition by Yahoo, 
they switched their OS requirements from RedHat to FreeBSD 4.10 for
their latest order.  Initially, they had asked for 4.8, but changed
their minds before we delivered.

jpc


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