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RE: one shot remote root for linux?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Thu Apr 30 13:29:55 2009

Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:28:58 +0100 (BST)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@jakma.org>
To: Gregory Boehnlein <damin@nacs.net>
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Gregory Boehnlein wrote:

> It is a common misconception that the ESX Hypervisor is Linux based, but
> that is an urban legend.

Is the ESX Hypervisor useful without the Linux layer? Then, to what 
extent do "based on" and "depends on" differ in the context of 
software?

--paulj



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