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by cperciva 5680 days ago
Yahoo is still using FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is also used by ISPs (NYI, Pair, Verio), storage companies (NetApp, EMC), internet infrastructure companies (Cisco, Juniper), hedge funds (not sure if I should mention names), antivirus companies (probably shouldn't mention names), large defence contractors, several US national laboratories...

There are permanent FreeBSD deployments on every continent (yes, including antarctica) and in some of the most remote regions on earth (when the European Southern Observatory in Chile needed to send data wirelessly over 100 km, they used FreeBSD).

Yes, people still use BSD.
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nightlifelover 5680 days ago
And maybe Tarsnap?;) Thx for the excellent answer.
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die_sekte 5680 days ago
EC2 has no support for BSD, if my cursory search was right, and Tarsnap runs partially on an EC2 instance.
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cperciva 5680 days ago
The Tarsnap server isn't running on FreeBSD (yet...) but a very large portion of the Tarsnap client code comes from the libarchive library, which grew out of FreeBSD. Whether that counts or not is a matter of opinion.
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