begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 09:54:50PM -0800:
> Tracy R Reed wrote:
> >Bob La Quey wrote:
> >>Well you could try BSD with XEN/AoE :)
> >
> >I could but that alone isn't reason enough to get as heavily involved
> >with BSD as I would need to be in order to make a go of it on production
> >systems.
>
> Personally, if ZFS was what I wanted, I'd go for Solaris rather than a
> *BSD. OpenSolaris apparently has Xen support and Solaris is supposed to
> get Xen support in its next release.
And Solaris 10 is free-as-in-beer too.
> Although, when I get some time, I'm likely to unload on a rant about
> Xen. I'm not very happy with it ("What do you mean that I can't even
> run this OS when fully virtualized? What kinda POS "virtualization" is
> that? What you really mean is Linux on Linux, and we claim anything
> else if it barely makes it to a boot screen. Lying bastards.").
Well, lying is how you get market share. It worked for MS, after all.
And a sizable fraction of the Linux community comes from the MS world,
and they've brought along their mindset with them.
> Right now I'm at the "typical badly documented crapware produced by
> Linux dweebs" stage and looking really hard at VMWare license fees.
I purchased VirtualPC, and then MS went and bought 'em. Oh, well.
Can't seem to win.
> Because, you know, VMWare freakin' works.
And, oddly enough, the more money you throw at VMWare, the more the
Linux-only dweebs will get motivated to crush the evil capitalistic
corporate product, 'cuz, you know, software ought to be free, and if
people are *paying* for software, that's not just right.
So you help Xen by buying VMWare.
--
I still can't bring myself to buy MS stock.
Stewart Stremler
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