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 _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
