Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:42:58 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> Subject: Re: vmware and FreeBSD. HUH? Message-ID: <4743E182.7090008@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0711211830580.1892@9N5CK1S.lpint.net> References: <4743C25D.9060308@elischer.org> <200711210819.28098.thierry@herbelot.com> <Pine.WNT.4.64.0711211830580.1892@9N5CK1S.lpint.net>
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Peter Ross wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > >> Le Wednesday 21 November 2007, Julian Elischer a �crit : >>> From http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=183 >>> >>> "While VMware has a high-end ESX server product that doesn�t rely on >>> any commodity operating system, it is still running a stripped down >>> version of FreeBSD." >>> >> I remembre reading ESX was more like a stripped-down 2.4 linux kernel >> (with >> the GPL implications ;-)) > > I just logged into the service console of a ESX 3.0 box: > > # uname -a > Linux myhostname 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELvmnix #1 Thu Jul 26 13:26:41 PDT 2007 > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > Regards > Peter makes you wonder where they get this sort of stuff..
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