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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. NetCraft still uses FreeBSD by ToasterTester · · Score: 0, Redundant

    NetCraft who you love to refer to just did and interview on WHY THEY USE FreeBSD and CONTINUE TO USE FreeBSD.

    Kind of makes all your cut and paste assults on FreeBSD a big waste of time.

  2. Some actual facts by AgainstFUD · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131228&cid =10982290

  3. Some actual facts by AgainstFUD · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131228&cid =10982290

  4. Some actual facts by AgainstFUD · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131228&cid =10982290

  5. Some actual facts by AgainstFUD · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131228&cid =10982290