FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org
Tue Jan 3 15:17:29 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:01:47 -0600, Mark Felder wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:46:54 -0600, Alejandro Imass <ait at p2ee.org> wrote:
>>
>> > I would just like to add that is FreeBSD was so crappy open sour
>> > software, why does it run half the Internet?
>>
>> This must be a mistake. I was just assured this weekend that FreeBSD is a
>> niche OS.
>
> Maybe consider the chance that a FreeBSD OS can be
> turned into closed source (which the license explicitely
> allows) and put into some embedded device, a router,
> a DSL modem, a managed switch... In parts like this,
> you won't recognize FreeBSD anymore. If you consider
> such devices "niche devices", think again: You'll
> find them near any Internet-connected computer and
> among the bowels of the whole Internet. :-)
>

Apple's OS X and iOS for starters. It was heavily based on *BSD,
including parts of FBSD


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