Is it true? Tom's runs on FreeBSD?

[tanderskey]

idle curiosity, does Tom's website really run on FreeBSD?

 

[audiovoodoo]

Shhh! We don't want to sully the name of BSD.

 

[Ijack]

idle curiosity, does Tom's website really run on FreeBSD?

I've never known it to crash. Guess it must be FreeBSD.

 

[audiovoodoo]

It's the site it serves that's the problem rather than the server.

 

[randomizer]

It runs on Windows Me I think.

 

[Pyroflea]

It runs on Windows Me I think.

But the website is more of a gray color. I see no blue screens on this entire website

 

[randomizer]

That's because they pray during their meditation that it never BSODs. Unfortunately, the server has other issues while they are meditating.

 

[Ijack]

Guru Meditation? It's running on an Amiga!

 

[linux_0]

:lol: there's a perl module which will spit out Guru Meditation errors when a CGI script fails

 

[Ijack]

It could be FreeBSD on an Amiga? Never got it to run myself, but I'm told it can be done.

 

[linux_0]

The perl module works on any Unix OS

 

[randomizer]

In that case we couldn't guess what they run this site on.

 

[mitch074]

Well, all I could find is that it's hosted and served by BSOCOM Webcache (HTTP header); it SEEMS (from a few hints, but no direct proof) that the Web server at least runs on Linux.

We can be pretty sure that it's not Windows-based, though.

 

[tanderskey]

yeah i saw that the ISP BSO Communications has a webcache delivering page requests for tomshardware.com ... and notes both linux and freebsd.

i wasnt sure if just the webcache appliance was the only thing running freebsd or whether the whole site was running it.

i guess it doesnt matter that much in my daily life ... but i was curious.

thanks for playing.

 

[audiovoodoo]

I bet is actually runs on OS-X server

 

[tanderskey]

OS-X server. that would be pretty funny ... esp considering all the vitriol aimed at apple products and its users by fans of other OS's in the news areas here. you dont like osx? well youre posting your comments with it right ... now.

BSO Communications does seem to own an ip block out of Paris and those French do "think different".

a bit off topic but when i last visited i loved how Parisians would stand directly in front of "no smoking" signs and, you know, smoke. and if you looked at them, then at the sign, then back at them the most theyd do is kinda shrug one shoulder as if to say, what? made me smile.

 

[sub mesa]

Even Microsoft's Hotmail ran on FreeBSD for many years. Microsoft waited until the release of a newer Windows Server product before it decided to migrate. Not a good example of 'eating your own dogfood'.

 

[audiovoodoo]

They used to use SCO OpenServer for DNS. They also made their TCP/IP stack from the BSD code base.

 

[Ijack]

They used to use SCO OpenServer....

We don't like that sort of language around here! Glad that Daryl finally got the boot.

 

[audiovoodoo]

Open Server wasn't that bad, it was worse.

 

[mitch074]

MS Hotmail ran on FreeBSD for years, because Hotmail was built on FreeBSD long before MS bought it.

At the time, all MS had as a server OS was... NT 4.0.

Remember what happened to the first 'get the FUD about Linux' website MS started? When it was found out that it actually ran Apache on a debian box, they migrated. 6 hours later, the site was down due to 'unrecoverable OS error'.

It's been down ever since.