From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 04:17:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD151065676 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:17:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f49.google.com (mail-pz0-f49.google.com [209.85.210.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0BA18FC17 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so4876473pzk.8 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:17:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=xnyOahWdZu4lTXcX1RlPPE4X184jtebeS/9BtB4NXEc=; b=vEXnyDjZVZZiI+bNpXbLKheRlHXtcSScxQgxq7XXjuYx4+5D9k5DR/yy+vBpAsXUgU AzJumUzYTUIvuAwsmadMTFF083qM8MuIoYfAhzRGaHFHO8AegRHl/UY/JdX3nPW6U82O 12e5G5O3BFcYnqh8Og+VP28r4az8Y+HBlqHzA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.188.17 with SMTP id l17mr3001238wff.156.1310962619989; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.216.4 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:16:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110717071059.25971662@scorpio> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:16:59 -0400 Message-ID: From: Outback Dingo To: Adam Vande More Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Dennis Glatting , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:17:01 -0000 On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > >> and cloud computing instances anyway, Name one cloud provider providing >> FreeBSD 8x or 9X >> to run as instances..... I know of one coming... question is are there >> others >> > > There are plenty already. Rootbsd for one, among others. Also there > wouldn't be any supporting FBSD 9 since it's not released yet. > Im pretty sure they are only XEN based and not "cloud" based per se, as there appears to be no elasticity on demand, Granted RootBSD is nice but on demand expansion of memory, cpu and disk under ones control is more what i would describe as FreeBSD in the cloud, > -- > Adam Vande More >