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FreeBSD Gets Official Support As VMware ESX Guest

Posted by timothy on from the be-their-guest dept.

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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  1. How was that a troll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It was a blatantly satire of the "*BSD* is dying troll and I thought it was pretty funny. It even included "SOLLOG" from yesterday's article about Wikipedia.