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New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE

Posted by kdawson on from the daemon-in-the-details dept.

jschauma writes "Many sites are reporting that the next Sidekick LX 2009/Blade, from Danger (acquired by Microsoft early in 2008), is going to run NetBSD as their operating system, causing Microsoft's recruiters to look for NetBSD developers."

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  1. Re:Is a 'Holy Fuck' in order? by hhw · · Score: 5, Informative

    You mean, Hotmail used to run FreeBSD before Microsoft bought it, and for the 4+ years it took them to migrate it over to Windows without failing?

    Hotmail itself has never run on Linux. It may however have some of its content delivered by Akamai's CDN, which does run Linux (but not Apache).

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  2. wow! Does this mean that there might be... by rivaldufus · · Score: 5, Informative
    more than one open source operating system out there? Will Slashdot survive? It cracks me up that a bunch of posts talked about how hotmail once ran on "linux" and qmail. Can't even say the name, "FreeBSD."

    Seriously, this isn't surprising... NetBSD runs on everything. The NetBSD team spends a significant amount of time supporting a large number of platforms - be it a modern X86 server or a sun pizza box.
    You'll notice that commercial entities like the BSD license (see: OS X) And, I don't think that the NetBSD developers will suddenly panic: "Someone's going to steal our code!" Contrary to what some here might feel, there is room for more than one open source operating system and, believe it or not, more than one license.
    Back in the old days, slashdot had the BSD link right on the front page.