FreeBSD Gets Official Support As VMware ESX Guest

An anonymous reader writes "FreeBSD 4.9 has become the first non-commercial open-source operating system to be supported as a VMware ESX guest. This allows enterprise users to benefit from a powerful open-source OS with the benefit of subscription free binary updates. This also solves a number of enterprise support issues around lack of hardware vendor support and issues around using non-commercial operating systems on SAN fabrics as the SAN access is abstracted through VMware, which the SAN supplier is more likely to have certified."

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Multi-image *BSD is dying

[Just Some Guy]

You don't need to be a Sollog to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: multiple concurrent images of *BSD face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for single-server *BSD farms because *BSD-as-a-guest-OS is dying...

Awww, hell with it. How do the trolls make this stuff up so quickly?