List of BSD adopters explained

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.

List

• 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] .

See also

• List of Linux adopters
• Adoption of free and open-source software by public institutions#Germany

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2020-09-20 . WhatsApp . 2024-09-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200920172853/https://blog.whatsapp.com/1-million-is-so-2011 . 2020-09-20 .
2. Web site: > WhatsApp moved away from FreeBSD to Linux. .
3. Web site: 2021-01-24 . DevConf.cz 2021: CentOS Stream at Facebook . 2024-09-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210124223805/https://devconfcz2021.sched.com/event/gmOa/centos-stream-at-facebook . 2021-01-24 .
4. Web site: The "other" FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s from a single server :: FreeBSD Presentations and Papers . 2024-09-06 . papers.freebsd.org.
5. Web site: Netflix and FreeBSD: Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video :: FreeBSD Presentations and Papers . 2024-09-06 . papers.freebsd.org.
6. Web site: 2013-12-03 . "Historic leap" for foreign military trainees . 2024-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005919/http://english.chinamil.com.cn/site2/columns/2006-02/14/content_420257.htm . 2013-12-03 .
7. Web site: 2008-09-06 . Linux.com :: Mindbridge switches to Linux, saves "bunches of money" . 2024-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080906134622/http://www.linux.com./feature/119020 . 2008-09-06 .
8. Web site: Open Source Software used in PlayStation®3 . 2024-09-06 . PlayStation . en-US.
9. Web site: Open Source Software Used in PlayStation®4 . 2024-09-06 . PlayStation . en-US.
10. Web site: Open Source Software Used in PlayStation®Vita . 2024-09-06 . PlayStation . en-US.
11. Web site: FreeBSD Press Release: April 22, 1999 . 2024-09-06 . The FreeBSD Project . en.
12. Web site: 2018-11-07 . BSD Overview . 2024-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181107021823/https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/BSD/BSD.html . 2018-11-07 .
13. Web site: switching_from_linux_to_bsd/ .
14. Web site: EuroBSDCon2024_Marinelli.pdf .
15. Web site: FreeBSD Operations at Limelight Networks .