What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

Remko Lodder remko at elvandar.org
Wed Oct 6 06:44:12 PDT 2004


Gerard Samuel wrote:
> Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:07:44AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> : On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:01:32PM +0100, 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?
>> : : Yes, a number of committers work for Yahoo.
>>
>> Any idea if they are running 5.x in production yet?
>>
> 
> Here is a thought.
> Why would they be running a pre-production release as a production 
> server????
> I have no idea what yahoo does, but I think it would be irrespondsible
> for them to attempt using 5.x on a production machine...

Apart from that: Why do you actually want to know? It's better not to 
know the exact version since others might abuse that information and
hack into the company. That does not feel right, well not with me :-).

Cheers.
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