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> What kind of things to people use FreeBSD for?

HN for start. And then there's (off the top of my head) Netflix, NetApp, Juniper, Sony, countless ISPs, DuckDuckGo...

It seems that HN have switched to a different OS, but used be on FreeBSD:

(scroll to "Hosting History")

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fne...

Linux in there is probably just because of CloudFlare. I had no idea what was HN running on until that outage a week or so ago with the switching of servers etc. A Tell HN[1] about the incident says they were using UFS and now switched to ZFS, and that can only mean FreeBSD.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069013

This might be it: https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software

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