Re: Docker

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 06:29 Walter Parker <walterp@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> Go try to find a mainstream cloud vendor with a standard BSD image
>> available.  The only one I ever found
>> was Digital Ocean and they're relatively small.
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> Does AWS count as a major cloud vendor? If you look at the OS catalog for
> EC2 images, they have all versions of 12 and 13. Last time I looked , they
> have all of the Betas and RCs for 13.2, which is more than they have for
> Ubuntu. Also, the number two cloud vendor submitted kernel patches to the
> FreeBSD project so that it would work better on Microsoft’s hypervisor.
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> See
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> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/freebsd-intro-on-azure
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> To see what Azure supports w.r.t. FreeBSD.
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> Also, Colin has been doing great with Amazon to get support for the new
> Amazon cloud hardware into FreeBSD.
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> Most other cloud vendors are small (maybe medium) as compared to AWS and
> Azure.
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ehem, i am first enemy of microsoft for their "progress by enforced
changes" ideology that messed up the once beautiful logical and coherent IT
world (that ideology is now obvious everywhere around with the same
results)... but i was forced to use WSL recently.. that is kind of text
mode only linux virtual machine on windoze.. quite similar to what bhyve +
console provides (we also have video support on BSD).

how about providing FreeBSD VM images for them? at least folks could choose
between Linux _and_ FreeBSD in this WSL stuff.. this could be also helpful
in some corporate environments where WSL is considered system application
but users are not allowed to install other applications and/or bare metal
stuff :-)

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