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Re:FreeBSD at 30 years: Its secrets to success by codetrotter on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:31PM (#36603786)
Sony based the OSes for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on FreeBSD.

Netflix uses FreeBSD in production on parts of its infrastructure.

Those two alone are pretty nice success stories.

And in addition to those are countless other companies quietly running FreeBSD on their servers.

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Re:FreeBSD at 30 years: Its secrets to success by lockhouse on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:42PM (#36604024)
The Nintendo Switch is based on FreeBSD as well. Also Juniper Networks and several other enterprise networking equipment manufacturers make extensive use of FreeBSD in their products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free...

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Re:FreeBSD at 30 years: Its secrets to success by Lutzb on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:10PM (#36605555)
The switch kernel / Horizon/NX is not based on FreeBSD. This has been debunked over and over. The wikipedia list is not correct in that regard. It is

see e.g. https://youtu.be/Ec4NgWRE8ik?t=700

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27109219

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17534593

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Re:FreeBSD at 30 years: Its secrets to success by lockhouse on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @07:07PM (#36608479)
Thanks, I stand corrected on the Nintendo Switch!
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