considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture

Roger Pau Monné roger.pau at citrix.com
Tue Apr 2 08:29:21 UTC 2013


On 01/04/13 20:31, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Why stop there?
> 
> Noone runs FreeBSD on real hardware anymore. Except, say netflix.
> 
> Let's just drop actual native hardware support and instead support
> only the bare minimum needed to boot inside vmware, virtualbox and
> xen.
> 
> Anyone needing real hardware support can install NetBSD and xen.

No need for NetBSD anymore, Xen is going to integrate the Linux tree and
glibc, so you can build a full distro form the Xen tree:

http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/04/01/bringing-open-source-communities-closer-together/



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