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From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org>
To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
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if i used farcebook, i might start a campaign page to drum up support for
freebsd on rackspace cloud.

any takers?


On 11/13/10 9:20 AM, "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:

>Thats good news because currently we have a gentoo machine with them
>(the closest linux distro to FreeBSD in philosophy and implementation)
>and since i have been a big FB user for years I have already told them
>we would like to switch if they offered the option
>
>On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote:
>> I got a somewhat encouraging response from Rackspace when I asked if
>>they
>> were going to offer FreeBSD in addition to the 17 different Linuxes and
>>5
>> different Windowses they offer.
>>
>> But ultimately their decision will depend on market interest.
>>
>> Here's the contact info if you want to voice your interest:
>>
>>  http://www.rackspacecloud.com/aboutus/contact
>>
>>
>> A Xen expert says you could order a Windows VM and overwrite it with 64
>> bit FreeBSD and that will work but it's not the ideal solution.
>>
>>
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