Freebsd

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http://slonik-v-domene.livejournal.com/96331.html Mail services from Rambler.ru ( rambler.ru: #179 from alexa top 500, #11 in Russia) migrates from FreeBSD to Linux (Debian) : “Regretfully, we cannot keep production on FreeBSD any longer. There are several reasons to it, but the primary are: lack of modern development, debugging and deployment tools and a really outdated package management system.”

http://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/conf/2008-ICSE-4kernel/html/Spi08b.html Quote from the article: “Therefore, the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is that open source development approaches do not produce software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software development.” A subjective code quality study for linux, windows, solaris and freebsd operating systems kernels

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496478.aspx a series of articles on TechNet describing and documenting hotmail migration to windows 2000/IIS 5.0/IISAPI from FreeBSD/Apache/CGI

http://www.softimage.net/2009/05/09/converting-a-unix-com-site-to-windows/ Notes from Hotmail team about conversion of hostmail apache/bsd -based webfarm to windows 2000. (they have converted CGI to ISAPI filters running on IIS 5.x )

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6788/vcallcon/ps7194/product_data_sheet0900aecd805c3cc1.pdf Cisco Service Node for Linksys One – integrated solution for linksys voip CPE (registration, services, provisioning), consists of cisco network gear (chassis + console server ) , 2 HP DL G380G4 servers + MSA100 storage / FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, OpenSER, NET-SNMP, DIND DNL (Dynamically-Loadable Zone)

http://fasterdata.es.net/TCP-tuning/ Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link, i.e. the situation when you normally use specialized networking hardware (read: cisco)

http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html BSD 5.0 release presentation, includes benchmarks: F10 vs FreeBSD 7.x vs NetBSD 4.0 and 5.0 (also see http://lwn.net/Articles/330909/ )

http://wiki.freebsd.org/VersionControl wiki page from FreeBSD people descibing their experineces and requirements for version control system. They [finally] swicthing from CVS [to Subversion]

http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html results, data and following discussion from 2006 test of routing performance