Try Panix v-colo; their control panel isn't as good as Linode's and they don't have this web community (they're more old-school and use usenet for their shell customers), but they provide FreeBSD.

(I have a v-colo and a linode, and like both).

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Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

The horrible things I would do if FreeBSD was supported by Linode... HORRIBLE THINGS! That is all.

Edit: Horrible is synonymous with showing gratitude, right?

http://www.rootbsd.net

Not as good as Linode for setup/admin, but comparable costs and otherwise excellent service.

Of course, if Linode offered FreeBSD as an option then there is no competition

Cheers,
Gary.

About RootBSD. COMPLETELY WRONG. In April of last year we were looking for virtualization solutions for our dedicated FreeBSD hosts. We emailed rootBSD with a question concerning Postgresql. Postgresql does IPC in shared memory and the issue was whether the memory segment used by Postgres on our virtual machine would be virtualized. They never replied and we immediately wrote them off. After that we came to Linode and have been steadily increasing our footprint here. But we still need FreeBSD. As for RootBSD they are a small time operation, a technical joke. We know Unix like the back of our hands and are with Linode simply because the other vendors cannot compare to Linode in service and support. We used their support 3 times in the last year and the replies were instantaneous.

Fair enough, that's your opinion, but I've always had good service from them.

The answer to you question is yes, you can run Postgresql perfectly in RootBSD, it's Xen virtualized just like Linode.

I use both RootBSD and Linode. Not putting all one's eggs in one basket etc.

Cheers,
Gary.

Can you say anything more about it at this time? Or were you perhaps referring to the recently introduced StackScripts? But I can't really see how you could use those to deploy FreeBSD...

Given that a lot of the fun work of *BSD install consists of tasks performed on a temporary Linux deployment, a StackScript would indeed work very well. gcc is gcc...

Hmm, yes, you are right.

I have never attempted to install *BSD on Linode yet. The little information I could find about it kinda put me off. Hence the reason for this feature request

So I guess now the question is: has anyone tried to make a StackScript for this already?

Perhaps we could do a community effort on this?

I would like to hear more about getting BSD on Linode as well I am adequate enough to install and use Linux, but the "guides" I looked up about installing BSD on Linode were beyond what I could without a lot of trial and error.

The next stable Debian release will support a FreeBSD kernel. I'm very interested in trying that out on Linode.

If can support NetBSD too, that's perfect.

Nothing has changed.

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It seems to me that somebody could write a stack script that would start with a base installation of something pretty bare (Ubuntu perhaps), and the stack script could do the various things required to deploy a BSD distro, such as copying a disk image of the installed distro off the net onto a partition and replacing the Linux kernel in /boot with a BSD kernel? Or is the partitioning methodology different enough in a BSD distro that this wouldn't work?

just casting my vote in favor of eventual FreeBSD support.

happy as a pig in shite with the way things are now though!

I love FreeBSD very much and FreeBSD is also my major development system. If Linode can support FreeBSD 64-bit, I will buy it immediately!!!!