List of BSD adopters

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

References

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