What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

[Jonathon McKitrick]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:45:09AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
: Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
: 
: >On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:39:05PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
: >: I'm sure that Yahoo, like any large commercial enterprise, has a whole
: >: host of specific customizations that they have applied to FreeBSD,
: >: and their version of FreeBSD doesen't look like what we have, at least 
: >not
: >: where the good bits are.
: >
: >I wonder.  Wouldn't that make keeping up-to-date a lot more difficult?
: > 
: >
: 
: Not necessarily.  It wouldn't be too difficult at all to even roll their own
: release, with all their custom patches, or set up their own source
: repo with the patches in place and do cvsup et al from their own
: servers.  There are lots of possibilities; the fact that I don't necessarily
: know what they all are doesn't negate the probability that they exist.

I mean keeping their source synced with the 'official' source.



jm
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