On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:25 PM, knox j <[email protected]> wrote:
> I appreciate your reply.
>Seems like MacOS is FreeBSD under the hood.
>

They use the BSD subsystem.
http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx/arch_xnu.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

>Some
> say Yahoo servers (used to) run on FreeBSD.
>

Yes, till some time back when they had FreeBSD developers on their
rolls. Now they migrated to RHEL. guess they have RH devs on their
rolls :-)

> Read somewhere that BSD is very tolerant towards >harware failures (memory
> location failures etc).
>

They are way far stable than Linux.

> http://news.netcraft.com/  (shows a lot of linux servers, probably just
> hosting?)
>

Yes Linux has wider adoption.
BSDs are a well kept secret  :-)

--Siju

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