What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gerard Samuel
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:32 AM
> To: Jonathon McKitrick
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; Kris Kennaway
> Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
> 

> 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...
>

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.

Ted