List of commercial products based on FreeBSD

List of commercial products based on FreeBSD

There are a number of commercial products based on FreeBSD. Information about these products and the version of FreeBSD they are based on is often difficult to come by, since this fact is not widely publicised.

Examples

  • Apple Inc.'s Darwin, the core of Mac OS X; built on the XNU kernel (part Mach, part FreeBSD, part Apple-derived code) and a userland much of which comes from FreeBSD
  • Blue Coat Systems network appliances
  • Calexium MailFountain is an Email Center appliance based on FreeBSD 8.1
  • Borderware[1] appliances (firewall, VPN, Anti-SPAM, Web filter etc) is based on a FreeBSD kernel.
  • Check Point IPSO security appliances
  • Citrix Netscaler OS Application delivery controller is based on FreeBSD.[2]
  • Coyote Point GX-series Web Acceleration and Load Balancer appliances[3]
  • Dell (was EqualLogic) iSCSI SAN arrays[4]
  • Halon Security H/OS 1.3.X is based on FreeBSD 6.2, H/OS 1.4.X is based on FreeBSD 7.2, H/OS 2.X is based on FreeBSD 7.0
  • IronPort AsyncOS is based on a FreeBSD kernel[5]
    • AntiSpam
    • SenderBase
  • Isilon clustered storage systems
  • Juniper Networks JUNOS
    • JUNOS prior to 5.0 was based on FreeBSD 2.2.6.
    • JUNOS between 5.0 and 7.2 (inclusive) is based on FreeBSD 4.2.
    • JUNOS 7.3 and higher is based on FreeBSD 4.10.
    • JUNOS 8.5 is based on FreeBSD 6.1
    • JUNOS 10.0 is based on FreeBSD 7.
  • KACE Networks's KBOX 1000 & 2000 Series Appliances and the Virtual KBOX Appliance
  • nCircle's IP360 security products use FreeBSD 6.x
  • McAfee Firewall Enterprise (aka Sidewinder)
  • NetApp filers based on Data ONTAP[6]
  • Netasq intrusion prevention appliances
  • Panasas parallel network storage systems[7]
  • Panasonic uses FreeBSD in their Viera TV receivers [8]
  • Silicon Graphics International uses FreeBSD in their MAID disk arrays, formerly manufactured by COPAN.
  • Sophos's Email Appliance[9]
  • St. Bernard Software[10] web filter appliance
  • Symmetricom Timing Solutions[11]
  • VXworks[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "MXtreme, BSP". http://www.borderware.com. 
  2. ^ "Dependency on FreeBSD Version for Installing Specific Releases of NetScaler Application Delivery Software". February 14, 2008. http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX115764. 
  3. ^ Sean Michael Kerner (January 13, 2009). "Coyote Point Builds on FreeBSD to Accelerate". http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3795791/Coyote-Point-Builds-on-FreeBSD-to-Accelerate.htm. 
  4. ^ "?". http://www.dell.com/EqualLogic. 
  5. ^ "Cisco IronPort AsyncOS". http://www.ironport.com/technology/ironport_asyncos_operating_system.html. 
  6. ^ Robert Watson (Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:31:03 +0000 (GMT)). "[FreeBSD-Announce Google / FreeBSD Summer of Code application period now open"]. http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20080324152918.V12107. Retrieved 11 August 2010. 
  7. ^ Robert Watson (11 November 2006). "How the FreeBSD Project Works". FreeBSD Project. University of Cambridge. http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/2006eurobsdcon/20061111-eurobsdcon2006-how-freebsd-works.pdf. Retrieved 11 August 2010. 
  8. ^ http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/tv/download/2010/down_navt.html
  9. ^ "Sophos Email Appliance: overview". http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/14384.html. 
  10. ^ iPrism "?". http://www.stbernard.com/products/iprism/default.asp iPrism. 
  11. ^ "?". http://www.symmttm.com/. 
  12. ^ Robert Watson (11 November 2006). "How the FreeBSD Project Works". FreeBSD Project. University of Cambridge. http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/2006eurobsdcon/20061111-eurobsdcon2006-how-freebsd-works.pdf. Retrieved 11 August 2010.