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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by tankenmate on Friday March 07, 2014 @08:14AM (#7359963)
Actually you can run custom kernels on DO VMs, in fact I have a machine doing that right now. In fact if push came to shove I reckon you'd even be able to get Windows to boot on a DO VM; it would be difficult but do-able.
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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by kchoudhu on Friday March 07, 2014 @11:41AM (#7361193)
I got FreeBSD running on by dropping into the PXE shell a while back. Didn't last past reboot, though: DO does some weird stuff to boot operating systems (maybe it wipes out the MBR every time?)

Got a $20 credit for my trouble (good PR!), and then promptly moved on to a provider that actually supports my needs.

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