With all this BSD talk happening on /g/ the past few days, I'm curious, what companies use *BSD? I see this on the openbsd donations page, but no one ever seems to mention they use *BSD.
Is it really a viable alternative to linux?
Supposedly nintendo used some of it to make their 3ds and switch os.
hardware support lags by at least a year on average, less eyeballs means less secure in reality regardless of theoretical advantages like as touted in openbsd
that said, im still a mac/bsdfag and think the future is pretty bright, linux has a lot of problems in the long term im not sure it will be able to deal with
>>61612127
PS4 os was based on freebsd
>>61612212
I thought the openbsd guys did regular audits though. So their security is just marketing?
>>61612351
unpublished audits and again, limited eyeballs
if you're under the impression a secure operating system exists you're kidding yourself
Netflix uses FreeBSD
>>61612378
Yeah, I guess you're right.
>>61612400
Whatsapp too, those are the most famous examples.
PS3, Vita, and PS4 are all FreeBSD based
OS X is FreeBSD based
Apple's Time Machines run NetBSD
Nintendo Switch is FreeBSD based
Netflix, Facebook, and WhatsApp all use FreeBSD
Some ISPs use OpenBSD
Adobe uses OpenBSD for its firewalls
etc.
>>61613330
>Apple's Time Machines run NetBSD
Just looked this up, it's actually the 'Time Capsule' router:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Time_Capsule
That's actually really cool, never expected NetBSD to be used professionally.
>>61613381
Yeah, I always get the two confused. Time Machine is the program OS X uses for backups.
>>61613330
>OS X is FreeBSD based
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>>61612127
Apple likes to copy and paste bsd before they rebrand them. It's odd that they aren't listed as a top donator since all apple os are just a mix of all the bsd ever released.
>>61613330
>OS X is FreeBSD based
Yeah, sure.
>>61613425
>>61613466
It is. It's not like it's just a fork of FreeBSD, but the OS OS X is based on, NeXTSTEP, is 4.3BSD based, and when Apple started developing OS X they updated those 4.3BSD components to FreeBSD ones.
>>61613330
OSX is more netbsd than freebsd.
>>61613496
Ohhh, so like "based on a true story" or "based god emperor" alright maybe I'll believe it.
>>61613525
source?
>>61613525
No, the original Mac OS X Server was NetBSD based, but every one after that was FreeBSD based
>>61613532
No, it's like "OS X is based on FreeBSD because it uses FreeBSD components"
>>61613546
>source
NetBSD, and applel. Web search if you want to find out more.
>>61613567
Yeah, should have done a basic search. I literally never knew that NetBSD was so prominent:
https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/products.html
>>61612127
>what companies use *BSD?
Lots of enterprise-grade stuff and appliances use BSDs as their base system. NetApp Data ONTAP and Juniper JUNOS are FreeBSD-based.
>Is it really a viable alternative to linux?
It's stable, robust and lightweight. BSDs are generally licensed using a *very* permissive license, which allows companies to legally modify the source code without having to give anything back.
>>61613549
That's pretty hilarious when you see heavy incompatibility with freebsd. Few drivers don't make an os.
>>61613496
Most of the command line utils come from netbsd and openbsd