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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
Subject: Re: vmware and FreeBSD. HUH?
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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..