Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com>wrote:
> >> ... Name one cloud provider providing FreeBSD 8x or 9X to run
> >> as instances..... I know of one coming... question is are there
> >> others
> >
> > There are plenty already.  Rootbsd for one, among others ...
>
> Im pretty sure they are only XEN based and not "cloud" based
> per se, as there appears to be no elasticity on demand, Granted
> RootBSD is nice but on demand expansion of memory, cpu and disk
> under ones control is more what i would describe as FreeBSD in
> the cloud,

Perhaps a Linux cloud instance can be depenguinated?