Friday, October 28, 2022

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

On 10/28/22 18:29, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Kalabic S. <kalabic@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Also, OpenBSD really is part of BSD family.
>
> That is such a load of crap.
>
> You have absolutely no idea what vmware is doing behind the scenes based
> upon that string.
>
> Obviously, it is doing stuff. But you want to say "oh family". Stop it.
>

Yeah, me using "family" was a brain fart, no idea what is ESXi doing
behind the scenes.

To be more precise, I wanted to say sticking with FreeBSD means sticking
with whatever behavior VMware will keep consistent and support in the
future. For "Others" option I don't think they care and is more probable
to vary.

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