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Sony based the OSes for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on FreeBSD.

Netflix uses FreeBSD in production on parts of its infrastructure.

Those two alone are pretty nice success stories.

And in addition to those are countless other companies quietly running FreeBSD on their servers.

The Nintendo Switch is based on FreeBSD as well. Also Juniper Networks and several other enterprise networking equipment manufacturers make extensive use of FreeBSD in their products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free...

The switch kernel / Horizon/NX is not based on FreeBSD. This has been debunked over and over. The wikipedia list is not correct in that regard.

see e.g. https://youtu.be/Ec4NgWRE8ik?t=700

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27109219

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17534593

Thanks, I stand corrected on the Nintendo Switch!

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