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List of BSD adopters
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This is a list of companies, organizations and individuals who have moved from other operating systems to a BSD system. In the open-source operating systems field, it can be an alternative to Linux distributions.
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- WhatsApp infrastructure service is probably the most notable FreeBSD[1] example of adoption on its servers,[2] before switching to Linux after being acquired by Facebook.[3]
- Netflix runs its video-streaming service on FreeBSD servers[4] all over the world[5]
- Until its 3.0 version, Kylin was using FreeBSD as an operating system project in China.[6]
- Mindbridge, a software company, announced in September 2007 that it had migrated a large number of Windows servers onto a smaller number of Linux servers and a few BSD servers. It claims to have saved "bunches of money."[7]
- Dozen of industrial-products manufacturers, especially towards networks and IT-industries, runs FreeBSD on some of their appliances: Juniper, Cisco, NetApp, Dell, Panasonic.
- FreeBSD is used by Sony as the core of PlayStation console range, for their PS3,[8] PS4,[9] and the PS Vita[10]
- FreeBSD has been used by Manex Visual Effects for render farms on CGI-images in The Matrix and others films[11]
- Darwin, the fundamental software base of MacOS and iOS, is based on shared code of XNU, FreeBSD, and Mach kernel, by Avie Tevanian from Carnegie Mellon University[12]
- In 2024, Italian advisor Stefano Marinelli tells how he migrates major part of its client's servers,[13] IT hosters and services providers, to FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD,[14] shared with some Linux servers, for reliability.
- The Edgio Content Delivery Network (ex Limelight) uses FreeBSD to operate it's infrastructure.[15]
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