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Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Sun Mar 14 06:59:34 2004

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:58:48 +0000
From: Simon Lockhart <simon.lockhart@bbc.co.uk>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Bohdan Tashchuk <tashchuk@easystreet.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4054469C.8070600@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Sun Mar 14, 2004 at 01:48:44PM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Any which would offer operating systems where the source is not full of 
> four letter words and license being questionable with some bowing to the 
> legal action already? Or is it just fashionable to restrict an operation 
> to Linux?

If someone can point me to Virtual Solaris Machine, then I'd willingly offer
that as a service (the colo I help run as a "hobby" is Sun only).

The reason people are doing it on Linux is that it's available. (And, in the
case of LVM, free)

Simon

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