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VMware Alternative Now Available On FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the what-to-wear-today dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Serenity Systems International has announced a public beta (costing 50 USD) of 'Serenity Virtual Station' running for the first time on FreeBSD. While existing VMware owners are able to run the version 2 or 3 under Linux binary compatibility and the ports of the Linux kernel modules to FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x respectively, there is no working port of the currently available VMware 4 kernel module; this may provide an alternative to those wishing to purchase a VM today." Here is the full announcement, including a link to the online store.

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  1. Obituary: Al Dvorin has died by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Al Dvorin, famous for using the phrase "Elvis has left the building" at the end of the singer's shows, has died. Dvorin died in a car accident as he and well-known Elvis photographer Ed Bonja drove from Palm Springs to Las Vegas. He was thrown from the car and died at the scene.

    Though details of the accident were not clear, it seemed Dvorin was adjusting his seat belt or had dropped something, and that Bonja reached over to assist and lost control of the car. the website added.

    Earlier in the day, Mr Dvorin - aged 81 - had appeared at the Trump 29 Casino in Coachella, California, with Elvis impersonator Paul Casey. His catch-phrase was used by other announcers at Elvis shows, but Dvorin made it his own.

    In related news, BSD's corpse was found dumped in a draw near Elko. Due to the advanced state of decay, the cause of BSD's death could not immediately be determined.

  2. Reiser Rocks !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Reasons why Reiser4 is great for you:
    • Reiser4 is the fastest file system, and the benchmarks prove it.
    • Reiser4 is an atomic file system, which means that your file system operations either entirely occur, or they entirely don't, and they don't corrupt due to half occurring. We do this without significant performance losses, because we invented algorithms to do it without copying the data twice.
    • Reiser4 uses dancing trees, which obsolete the balanced tree algorithms used in databases (see farther down). This makes Reiser4 more space efficient than other file systems because we squish small files together rather than wasting space due to block alignment like they do. It also means that Reiser4 scales better than any other file system. Do you want a million files in a directory, and want to create them fast? No problem.
    • Reiser4 is based on plug-ins, which means that it will attract many outside contributors, and you'll be able to upgrade to their innovations without reformatting your disk. If you like to code, you'll really like plugins....
    • Reiser4 is architected for military grade security. You'll find it is easy to audit the code, and that assertions guard the entrance to every function.
    V3 of reiserfs is used as the default file system for SuSE, Lindows, FTOSX and Gentoo. We don't touch the V3 code except to fix a bug, and as a result we don't get bug reports for the current mainstream kernel version. It shipped before the other journaling file systems for Linux, and is the most stable of them as a result of having been out the longest.

    Reiser4, for when only the best will do!

  3. Ashlee Keeps Her 'GREAT RACK' Under Wraps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Confident pop rocker Ashlee Simpson has vowed to keep her "great rack" under wraps and never expose her curves in a men's magazine. The younger sister of reality TV star Jessica Simpson told Blender magazine that she is proud of her ample chest, but is too conservative to expose them in the media.

    Ashlee says, "I know exactly what's under this T-shirt, but I'm going to keep it under wraps."

    "Maybe I'll take a few pictures for myself because I have to tell you, I do have great breasts! I am 19, after all."