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xianwen | 3 years ago

Does someone run NetBSD in production? What do you use NetBSD for?

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kwk1|3 years ago

NetBSD is used for sdf.org, the SDF Public Access UNIX System.

efortis|3 years ago

Fastly

At least in 2017:

https://twitter.com/fastly/status/934495679849881601?s=21&t=...

greyface-|3 years ago

"200GB/day and 55,000 requests/day" sounds like traffic numbers for Fastly's NetBSD mirror, not a claim that they run it internally.

kijiki|3 years ago

0.6 requests per second? That certainly isn't part of their CDN...

weitzj|3 years ago

We used to run it in the geophysics department of the university for workstations.

Also on Jump Hosts with a weird cpu architecture, so that you could not do much with them

xianwen|3 years ago

Interesting. Does the Geophysics Department use a different OS now to run the workstations?

washbear|3 years ago

It's "big in Japan". Used on many ISP routers there, for example Internet Initiative Japan's "SEIL" family, as well as most workstations in a few Japanese universities.

pkgsrc enjoys mild popularity in the scientific computing community, a lot of NetBSD use is probably in education - Cambridge University uses it for their thin clients too.

xianwen|3 years ago

Thanks!

hestefisk|3 years ago

A few in-space satellites I believe.

hestefisk|3 years ago

Also, Apple’s AirPort wifi devices ran NetBSD.

amerine|3 years ago

I know of a few small ISPs that run NetBSD on SOKRIS(sp?) machines to do routing at edge pops.

jks|3 years ago

Probably Soekris. Those were nice machines but don't seem to be available any more.

nix23|3 years ago

SDF.org ;)