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FreeBSD 9.0 headed to the cloud as 8.2 nears release

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 15, 2010

“The open source FreeBSD operating system is headed to the
Amazon cloud. Not the mainline FreeBSD 8.x release, but rather the
next generation FreeBSD 9 release that is currently in
development.

“The movement of FreeBSD to Amazon stems from work done by
FreeBSD developers, with some direction and guidance from
Amazon.

“”One of my largest complaints about Amazon EC2 ever since it
launched has been my inability to run FreeBSD on it,” FreeBSD
developer Colin Percival blogged.”


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