[BUGS] Really small distro

HarryWoodward-Clarke harry at woodward-clarke.com
Fri Oct 17 15:49:30 EST 2008


Sun's VirtualBox (virtualbox.org) is free (as in 'beer') - and there  
is a free (as in Liberty) version as well. the latter doesn't have as  
many bells and whistles, but it's a good product none-the-less.

hth,

.h

Quoting Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au>:

>
> On 17/10/2008, at 3:14 PM, Bernie Maier wrote:
>
>> Jerahmy Pocott:
>>
>>> VMWare can do this.. It's not free
>>
>> Really?  I'm running a free VMware at work.  There are different
>> editions
>> of VMware, some free, some payware.
>>
>> VMware Server was free, the last time I looked.
>
> Hmm, I don't know, there are heaps of editions of vmware now =s
>
> They all seemed to want me to give them money! Though I was mainly
> looking at the "Desktop" editions.. VMWare Fusion for OSX is quite
> good, I was able to run DirectX9 stuff in full screen using it.. Since
> the OpenGL stuff in the latest XQuartz isn't working with wine >_<
>
> I'v noticed a trend since "redhat" went commercial, to hide the free
> version in some obscure place and cover it with links to the
> commercial version..
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