[hydra-dev] Proposed Supported Platforms

[Joshua Colp]

----- Original Message -----
> 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

While that may be a requirement I don't think it should be a limit. The cost of
supporting other platforms will be really low in the grand scheme of things
and I think making Hydra support the ones people choose to use even outside of
the fluffy clouds is needed.

-- 
Joshua Colp
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