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Subject: Re: plex86 guest os (video) drivers
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:37:00 +0200
From: Jeroen Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Kendall Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Kendall Bennett wrote:
> Ok. Do you have a URL for this project?
Sure (sorry I forgot to mention it), the website is located at
http://www.plex86.org. The mailinglist archive is located at
http://www.mail-archive.com/freemware-list%40fastxs.net/ and
http://www.mail-archive.com/plex86%40fastxs.net/ (the projectname &
mailinglist were renamed a few weeks back)
> Sounds interesting. What specifically is the purpose of plex86? Is it something for
>Linux, or something else entirely? Or is it an Open
> Source version of VMWare?
It's more of the latter (as you can see at the first mailinglist archive
:). It's not Linux only, there is also some BeOS and FreeBSD work in
progress.
> We might be interested in helping in this area, but our core device driver
>technology is not Open Source. It is unlikely that it will
> become Open Source anytime soon, simply because of the vast number of NDA's that we
>have signed in order to develop the product.
I understand and I wouldn't want you to give away your core business
(even if it were possible, regardless of the NDA's). I just have the
"feeling" that you have lot of experience (& ideas) wrt the writing of
(video) drivers,etc and that might help us develop (good) graphics
drivers for a number of different guest platforms.
> However we are happy to work with Open Source devleopers who wish to be able to
> utilise our device driver technology for different projects.
I am not exactly familiar how your device driver technology "works" (I
believe I read somewhere that you have platform independent drivers?)
and how we will be able to utilise it for plex86, but I think that will
also relate to how we're going to address the host <-> guest interface.
It's only possible to run MSDOS & FreeDOS at the moment and I don't know
"how long it will take" for plex86 to be able to run windows or linux
(it might take some time), but it's good to know that you show interest
in this :)
btw, is it ok for me to forward this message and the previous one to the
plex86 mailinglist?
Best regards,
Jeroen Janssen
