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Who uses FreeBSD?

FreeBSD is used by many of the worlds largest corporations, and busiest Internet sites.

  • Yahoo!, Apache, Sony Japan, Netcraft, Weathernews, Supervalue.
  • Apple chose FreeBSD over Linux as the Unix core for Mac OS X.
  • According to Netcraft, nearly 2.5 million active sites use FreeBSD as a network server -- about one million more than Red Hat Linux[1][2].
  • In the last year alone, about one million new FreeBSD hosts were counted by Netcraft, an incredible growth rate despite more media attention for Linux.
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[1] http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=1908
[2] http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3367381