On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:54:54PM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote: > Well, I didn't expect to inspire such a vibrant thread! A couple > of responses (not in anger, just adding some perspective). > > 1) free vs. non-free alternatives > > I use VMWare 2.0. If you think that bochs and Plex86 aren't > viable alternatives yet, you can imagine the state of the world > (2 years ago today) when I bought my license. At that time > VMWare was being praised for bringing Linux into places where it > never before existed. That's actually true. We should fix the free alternatives. :) > I have since felt slightly cajoled by the company to buy upgrades > that I didn't feel that I needed, and I resisted. I am content > with what I have, and satisfied to wait until a free alternative > becomes viable. When I can start Plex86, drop in a Windows NT > install disk (or any other OS for that matter) and install a > system from scratch, I will be pleased to do it. I am in the end > a free software zealot. Yes, it was actually your own fault, but the problem is that there doesn't exist a good free alternative. There are a lot of outstanding plex86 patches and somebody from an university had interest in plex86. The project isn't dead and I hope you can happily run plex86 within a couple of months. And it won't have this kind of problems and it would just be possible to apt-get install plex86. :) > 2) posting to ddevel > > I posted to ddevel for a few reason (perhaps in error, and I'm > willing to concede that). > > - I read the list, and I have for a long time (so I don't > actually need to be Cc:ed). > > - I was continuing a previous thread. The level seemed to > be of a technical nature and relevant to the list. > > My question wasn't really of the "user" variety (how do I > configure a fire wall, how do ... in dselect, etc.). Actual my point was that you should ask vmware for the patch, we can't provide it because it's non-free software. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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