svn commit: r42859 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Sun Oct 6 01:17:49 UTC 2013
Author: eadler
Date: Sun Oct 6 01:17:48 2013
New Revision: 42859
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42859
Log:
Give a bit of information about the companies that use FreeBSD.
Submitted by: Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com>
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml Sat Oct 5 23:48:44 2013 (r42858)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml Sun Oct 6 01:17:48 2013 (r42859)
@@ -407,31 +407,297 @@
<secondary>large sites running &os;</secondary>
</indexterm>
- <para>&os; is used as a platform for devices and products from
- many of the world's largest IT companies, including:</para>
+ <para>&os;'s advanced features, proven security, and predictable
+ release cycle, as well as its permissive license have lead to
+ its use as a platform for building many commericial and open
+ source appliances, devices, and products, including those from
+ many of the world's largest IT companies:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><ulink
+ url="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>Apache</primary></indexterm> - The Apache
+ Software Foundation runs most of its public facing
+ infrastructure, including possibly one of the largest SVN
+ repositories in the world with over 1.4 million commits,
+ on &os;.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
url="http://www.apple.com/">Apple</ulink><indexterm>
- <primary>Apple</primary></indexterm></para>
+ <primary>Apple</primary></indexterm> - OS X borrows
+ heavily from &os; for the network stack, virtual file
+ system, and many userland components. Apple iOS also
+ contains elements borrowed from &os;.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><ulink
url="http://www.cisco.com/">Cisco</ulink><indexterm>
- <primary>Cisco</primary></indexterm></para>
+ <primary>Cisco</primary></indexterm> - IronPort network
+ security and anti-spam appliances run a modified &os;
+ kernel.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.citrix.com/">Citrix</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>Citrix</primary></indexterm> - The NetScaler
+ line of security appliances provide layer 4-7 load
+ balancing, content caching, application firewall, secure
+ VPN, and mobile cloud network access, along with the power
+ of a &os; shell.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.dell.com/KACE">Dell
+ KACE</ulink><indexterm><primary>Dell
+ KACE</primary></indexterm> - The KACE system
+ management appliances run &os; because of its
+ reliability, scalability, and the community that supports
+ its continued development.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.experts-exchange.com/">Experts
+ Exchange</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>Experts Exchange</primary>
+ </indexterm> - All public facing web servers are powered
+ by &os; and they make extensive use of jails to isolate
+ development and testing environments without the overhead
+ of virtualization.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.isilon.com/">Isilon</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>Isilon</primary></indexterm> - Isilon's
+ enterprise storage appliances are based on &os;. The
+ extremely liberal &os; license allowed Isilon to integrate
+ their intellectual property throughout the kernel and
+ focus on building their product instead of an operating
+ system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><ulink
- url="http://www.juniper.net/">Juniper</ulink></para>
+ url="http://www.ixsystems.com/">iXsystems</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>iXsystems</primary></indexterm> - The TrueNAS
+ line of unified storage appliances is based on &os;. In
+ addition to their commercial products, iXsystems also
+ manages development of the open source projects PC-BSD
+ and FreeNAS.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.juniper.net/">Juniper</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>Juniper</primary></indexterm> - The JunOS
+ operating system that powers all Juniper networking gear
+ (including routers, switches, security, and networking
+ appliances) is based on &os;. Juniper is one of many
+ vendors that showcases the symbiotic relationship between
+ the project and vendors of commercial products.
+ Improvements generated at Juniper are upstreamed into
+ &os; to reduce the complexity of integrating new
+ features from &os; back into JunOS in the future.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.mcafee.com/">McAfee</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>McAfee</primary></indexterm> - SecurOS, the
+ basis of McAfee enterprise firewall products including
+ Sidewinder is based on &os;.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><ulink
url="http://www.netapp.com/">NetApp</ulink><indexterm>
- <primary>NetApp</primary></indexterm></para>
+ <primary>NetApp</primary></indexterm> - The Data ONTAP
+ GX line of storage appliances are based on &os;. In
+ addition, NetApp has contributed back many features,
+ including the new BSD licensed hypervisor, bhyve.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.netflix.com/">Netflix</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>Netflix</primary></indexterm> - The OpenConnect
+ appliance that Netflix uses to stream movies to its
+ customers is based on &os;. Netflix has make extensive
+ contributions to the codebase and works to maintain a zero
+ delta from mainline &os;. Netflix OpenConnect appliances
+ are responsible for delivering more than 32% of all
+ Internet traffic in North America.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.sandvine.com/">Sandvine</ulink>
+ <indexterm><primary>Sandvine</primary></indexterm> -
+ Sandvine uses &os; as the basis of their high
+ performance realtime network processing platforms that
+ make up their intelligent network policy control
+ products.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.sony.com/">Sony</ulink>
+ <indexterm><primary>Sony</primary></indexterm> -
+ Both the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 gaming consoles
+ run modified versions of &os;.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.sophos.com/">Sophos</ulink>
+ <indexterm><primary>Sophos</primary></indexterm> -
+ The Sophos Email Appliance product is based on a
+ hardened &os; and scans inbound mail for spam and viruses,
+ while also monitoring outbound mail for malware as well as
+ the accidental loss of sensitive information.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.spectralogic.com/">Spectra Logic</ulink>
+ <indexterm><primary>Spectra Logic</primary></indexterm> -
+ The nTier line of archive grade storage appliances run
+ &os; and OpenZFS.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.weather.com/">The Weather
+ Channel</ulink><indexterm><primary>The Weather
+ Channel</primary></indexterm> - The IntelliStar
+ appliance that is installed at each local cable
+ providers headend and is responsible for injecting local
+ weather forecasts into the cable TV network's programming
+ runs &os;.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.verisign.com/">Verisign</ulink>
+ <indexterm><primary>Verisign</primary></indexterm> -
+ Verisign is responsible for operating the .com and .net
+ root domain registries as well as the accompanying DNS
+ infrastructure. They rely on a number of different
+ network operating systems including &os; to ensure there
+ is no common point of failure in their
+ infrastructure.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.whatsapp.com/">WhatsApp</ulink>
+ <indexterm><primary>WhatsApp</primary></indexterm> - When
+ WhatsApp needed a platform that would be able to handle
+ more than 1 million concurrent TCP connections per server,
+ they chose &os;. They then proceeded to scale past 2.5
+ million connections per server.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://wheelsystems.com/en/">Wheel Systems</ulink>
+ <indexterm><primary>Wheel Systems</primary></indexterm> -
+ The FUDO security appliance allows enterprises to
+ monitor, control, record, and audit contractors and
+ administrators who work on their systems. Based on all of
+ the best security features of &os; including ZFS, GELI,
+ Capsicum, HAST, and auditdistd.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <para>&os; has also spawned a number of related open source
+ projects:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://bsdrp.net/">BSD Router</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>BSD Router</primary></indexterm> - A &os; based
+ replacement for large enterprise routers designed to run
+ on standard PC hardware.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.freenas.org/">FreeNAS</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>FreeNAS</primary></indexterm> - A customized
+ &os; designed to be used as a network file server
+ appliance. Provides a python based web interface to
+ simplify the management of both the UFS and ZFS file
+ systems. Includes support for NFS, SMB/CIFS, AFP, FTP,
+ and iSCSI. Includes an extensible plugin system based on
+ &os; jails.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.ghostbsd.org/">GhostBSD</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>GhostBSD</primary></indexterm> - A desktop
+ oriented distribution of &os; bundled with the Gnome
+ desktop environment.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/">mfsBSD</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>mfsBSD</primary></indexterm> - A toolkit for
+ building a &os; system image that runs entirely from
+ memory.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.nas4free.org/">NAS4Free</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>NAS4Free</primary></indexterm> - A file server
+ distribution based on &os; with a PHP powered web
+ interface.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.pcbsd.org/">PC-BSD</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>PC-BSD</primary></indexterm> - A customized
+ version of &os; geared towards desktop users with
+ graphical utilities to exposing the power of &os; to
+ all users. Designed to ease the transition of Windows and
+ OS X users.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://www.pfsense.org/">pfSense</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>pfSense</primary></indexterm> - A firewall
+ distribution based on &os; with a huge array of features
+ and extensive IPv6 support.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://m0n0.ch/wall/">m0n0wall</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>m0n0wall</primary></indexterm> - A stripped
+ down version of &os; bundled with a web server and PHP.
+ Designed as an embedded firewall appliance with a
+ footprint of less than 12 MB.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink
+ url="http://zrouter.org/">ZRouter</ulink><indexterm>
+ <primary>ZRouter</primary></indexterm> - An open source
+ alternative firmware for embedded devices based on &os;.
+ Designed to replace the proprietary firmware on
+ off-the-shelf routers.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -453,12 +719,6 @@
<listitem>
<para><ulink
- url="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</ulink><indexterm>
- <primary>Apache</primary></indexterm></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink
url="http://www.rambler.ru/">Rambler</ulink><indexterm>
<primary>Rambler</primary></indexterm></para>
</listitem>
@@ -502,8 +762,8 @@
<listitem>
<para><ulink
- url="http://www.weathernews.com/">Weathernews</ulink><indexterm>
- <primary>Weathernews</primary></indexterm></para>
+ url="http://www.weathernews.com/">Weathernews</ulink>
+ <indexterm><primary>Weathernews</primary></indexterm></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -513,15 +773,11 @@
</indexterm></para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.experts-exchange.com/">Experts
- Exchange</ulink><indexterm>
- <primary>Experts Exchange</primary>
- </indexterm></para>
- </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>and many more.</para>
+ <para>and many more. Wikipedia also maintains a <ulink
+ url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_FreeBSD">
+ list of products based on &os;</ulink></para>
</sect2>
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