FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

[Mark Felder]

On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:14:52 -0600, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> Maybe consider the chance that a FreeBSD OS can be
> turned into closed source (which the license explicitely
> allows) and put into some embedded device, a router,
> a DSL modem, a managed switch... In parts like this,
> you won't recognize FreeBSD anymore. If you consider
> such devices "niche devices", think again: You'll
> find them near any Internet-connected computer and
> among the bowels of the whole Internet.


Well we just picked up some Juniper MX80s here at work. That's right, they  
can route 80gbit/s and the OS that controls the hardware is basically  
FreeBSD at the core. (I understand the actual routing is fully done in  
hardware, but still -- I can get a familiar FreeBSD shell and do what I  
wish with these devices.)

I think FreeBSD is doing *just* fine.