Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Why I?m staying with Debian
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| And Debian, for all its endless squabbles and the posturing of some of its
>| developers, has overall proven itself a community I can trust. So, at least
>| for the time being, I?ll be sticking with Debian.
> `----
>
> http://brucebyfield.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/why-im-staying-with-debian/
>
> On the other hand, by contract, this is astonishing:
>
> XenSource dishes embedded hypervisor to OEMs
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/05/xensource_oem_edition_announced/
>
> Hypervisor vendor adds "embedded" version
>
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6921141970.html
>
> XenSource Offers Embedded Hypervisor for Server OEM's
>
> http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/hardware/11703/xensource-offers-embedded-hypervisor-server-oems
>
> XenSource unveils OEM edition
>
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=172508174&rid=-50
>
>
> No menion of Linux. This is official: Microsoft hijacked XenSource, so Xen
> needs to be forked or altogether abandoned.
>
It's inevitable; Microsoft cannot have people running Windows on Linux -
it would stop them from doing all kinds of little tricks to keep the
customers updating/patching and generally paying again.
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