ITP: bochs -- x86 emulator
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
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And on that note: Bochs runs on just about anything...
License is LGPL, though the VGA BIOS situation is identical (elpin,
free to distribute with bochs), so it'll be non-free probably...
seems rather silly to package two copies of the same bios, though.
Maybe elpin could be persuaded to switch to a better non-free license,
so we only need one copy of the VGA BIOS in the archive, and these packages
could both go into contrib.
-brad
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 05:05:14PM -0800, Bradley Bell wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 01:53:54AM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> > > That wouldn't help users of non-i386 systems.
> >
> > That's not a problem, as plex86 only runs on Pentium or upper i386 systems
> > ;-)
> >
>
> <speculation>
> hmm, so why doesn't it use the native bios? And how hard would it be to rip
> the user's bios in the postinst, for example?
> </speculation>
>
> -brad
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