Did you know that the Foundation that powers half the Internet uses FreeBSD for nearly all of its public facing services? The FreeBSD Foundation recently received this testimonial from the Apache Software Foundation:
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range
of open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established
framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that
simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure.
Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache
projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products
that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License
makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache
products.
The ASF powers half the Internet, petabytes of data, teraflops of
operations, billions of objects, and enhances the lives of countless
users and developers. Established in 1999 to shepherd, develop, and
incubate Open Source innovations, "The Apache Way," the ASF oversees
150+ projects led by a volunteer community of over 350 individual
Members and 3,000 Committers across six continents.
ApacheCon North America 2011 was just recently held in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada where FreeBSD was a highlight in the DevOps
track talks. The Apache Software Foundation itself leverages FreeBSD
for nearly all of its public facing services
including one of the largest SVN repositories in the world. Our
repository is mirrored on several continents and contains over 1.4
million revisions stretching for over a decade. We will even be lending
a hand converting the FreeBSD CVS ports tree to SVN.
The Apache Software Foundation makes use of both custom FreeBSD
Tinderbox and FreeBSD Update servers to rapidly perform application and
base system updates across multiple datacenters in an automated, quick,
and efficient fashion. The Apache Infrastructure Team frequently works
directly with FreeBSD developers to stress cutting-edge features like
ZFS under real-world loads.
Like The FreeBSD Foundation, the ASF is also a 501(c)3 organization.
Donating to FreeBSD through The FreeBSD Foundation, makes Apache better
too and will help make your's and others' daily lives less stressful.
The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project. The Foundation gratefully accepts donations from individuals and businesses, using them to fund projects which further the development of the FreeBSD operating system.
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