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by plam503711 4y ago
Xen Orchestra is not proprietary at all (fully aGPLv3!). It's just a different approach, mainly for historical reasons, when it was only on top of Citrix Hypervisor/XenServer. So the concept is that you can build it yourself from
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by plam503711 4y ago
That's why there's a smaller plan (XCP-ng Standard, it's only half the price, for 5 machines it will be 3K). But yeah, smaller infrastructure pricing is hard, because people tend to have less knowledge and requesting more ass
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My vision for Open Source pro support(xcp-ng.org)
23 points by plam503711 4y ago|14 comments
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RISC-V: The Next Revolution in the Open Hardware Movement(thenewstack.io)
2 points by plam503711 5y ago|0 comments
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Solving a Xen regression on FreeBSD thanks to the community(xcp-ng.org)
5 points by plam503711 5y ago|0 comments
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What Can ‘Enterprise Open Source’ Do for You?(thenewstack.io)
5 points by plam503711 6y ago|0 comments
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by plam503711 6y ago
XCP-ng Center (the Windows client) will disappear and Xen Orchestra is the only officially support client. In the next month, we'll bundle "XO Lite" into hosts to manage a simple machine without having to install anything!
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by plam503711 7y ago
Note that the first HN/discussion about XCP-ng is here, back in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16139877 Just wanted to keep you posted on what the project become since its inception :)
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XCP-Ng Joins the Xen Project as an Incubation Project(xenproject.org)
1 points by plam503711 7y ago|1 comments
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by plam503711 8y ago
Hi there :) [XCP-ng project]( https://xcp-ng.org ) founder here. I made a presentation during last FOSDEM for those who want to learn more about this free/libre/Open Source fork from XenServer/Citrix Hypervisor: ht
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by plam503711 9y ago
I wouldn't go this way, personally (David vs Goliath). At least, not after exploring almost all other options.
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by plam503711 9y ago
Hey listen, I'm living selling an Open Source product. So I know a bit how it works and what business means. There is a gap between not posting a doc and having no way to build it because it uses internal Citrix URL to the dependencies
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by plam503711 9y ago
It's using massively GPLv2 code from everywhere (plus XAPI and Xen are Linux foundation projects!). GPL compliance requires you to provide build scripts.
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by plam503711 9y ago
Which is not buildable "as is". Cf my other post here.
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by plam503711 9y ago
No, you don't get it: it's NOT Open Source. Because currently, there is NO way to build it from the sources. Putting the sources on GitHub is something, but only with a very complicated build process which is not documented or eve