Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:35:59 +1100 (AUS Eastern Daylight Time) From: Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: vmware and FreeBSD. HUH? Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0711211830580.1892@9N5CK1S.lpint.net> In-Reply-To: <200711210819.28098.thierry@herbelot.com> References: <4743C25D.9060308@elischer.org> <200711210819.28098.thierry@herbelot.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --16927197-25031-1195630355=:1892 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=X-UNKNOWN; FORMAT=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0711211832451.1892@9N5CK1S.lpint.net> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Le Wednesday 21 November 2007, Julian Elischer a =E9crit : >> From http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=3D183 >> >> "While VMware has a high-end ESX server product that doesn=92t rely on >> any commodity operating system, it is still running a stripped down >> version of FreeBSD." >> > I remembre reading ESX was more like a stripped-down 2.4 linux kernel (wi= th > the GPL implications ;-)) I just logged into the service console of a ESX 3.0 box: # uname -a Linux myhostname 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELvmnix #1 Thu Jul 26 13:26:41 PDT 2007 i686= i686 i386 GNU/Linux Regards Peter --16927197-25031-1195630355=:1892--
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