[hydra-dev] Proposed Supported Platforms

[Tim Panton]

On 8 Jun 2010, at 16:56, Malcolm C. Davenport wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 06/07/2010 02:06 PM, Joshua Colp wrote:
>>> Linux Windows
>>> FreeBSD (*)
>>> Solaris OSX
>> 
>> How many people are going to be upset that OpenBSD is not included in
>> this list? I suspect it may be in a similar situation as FreeBSD.
>> While not officially supported, it's probably not that much additional
>> effort to make it "work" (even if unsupported by ZeroC).
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Though they may be vocal, I believe the numbers of OpenBSD users are but a fraction of the FreeBSD users.
> 
> I have some reservations about making any advances to support FreeBSD, but I understand that by supporting any of the *BSDs, that we've made it tremendously easier for any other *BSD user who might want to use their own platform.  Thus, there's a wide benefit without over-exertion of resource.
> 
> I think FreeBSD is as far as we need to go into *BSD-land as a direct initiative.  If someone feels particularly strong about another BSD - Open, Net, etc., then I'd vote that we're open to contributions but that we're not worrying ourselves about it.
> 
> But, that's just my opinion.
> 
> 


Are there any (or do we expect any) cloud service providers supporting *BSD ?

Our target OS's need to be focused around the cloud-friendly OS's 

T.

Tim Panton - Web/VoIP consultant and implementor
www.westhawk.co.uk