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<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.juniper.net/">Juniper</ulink></para>
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.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&nbsp;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>
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<primary>Yandex</primary></indexterm></para>
</listitem>
<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>
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<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>
</sect1>