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		patrickaljord on Oct 14, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Long Beard's Revenge > Kernel level stuff is something you can't (yet?!?) host in the cloud Really? What do you think all the clouds run on? How about Amazon and other cloud hosting solutions? Isn't that linux (and its kernel) in the cloud?

barrkel on Oct 14, 2010 [–]

You don't rent your kernel in a SaaS sense, such that every kernel syscall involves a trans-cloud RPC.

zerohp on Oct 14, 2010 | [–]

Thanks for the fantastic startup idea. Working on it now.

alanh on Oct 14, 2010 | | [–]

(Not to get all Reddit up in here, but) your username is fantastic in this context.

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