On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 06:22:42PM -0400, Allover Stripes wrote: > Cool. That would make it feasible to try it on my big machine instead > of a 386... so much nicer. I'd have to buy vmware, alas. Tempting.
Try the evaluation version. > Bochs is also not free. It is, however, cheaper IIRC. Yep, right. $25. You are correct that I meant freemware. > The project you are thinking of is freemware, which is by the same > author and includes what he describes as the hard parts of bochs. It > will be LGPL. See http://www.freemware.org/. It has a long way to go. Yes. They have a very small kernel now that does virtually nothing, so they can try their virtualization layer... mmh. > The GNU guidelines used to say something like "we'll only use non-free > sofware if we're working on a free implementation", but this was back > when you couldn't run an all-free system. So if you use VMware, RMS > is liable to frown at you. I wish freemware worked... I wish I knew > enough to be useful... I am not part of GNU, although I share lots of their ideals and goals. I will use the evaluation version of vmware if I think it gains me something. Unfortunately, as always with proprietary software, it seems to lack a bit :) At least for me it does not run the Hurd, and I have no idea how I could try to fix the problems. I will certainly not spend much time on it. Rebooting is not a big deal for me, and with the ever increasing stability and usability of the Hurd, rebooting to Linux might become unnecessary sometime in the not-too-distant future :) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
