From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 20: 2:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (CDR22-173.accesscable.net [24.138.22.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9034137B4D7; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:02:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAS41wF01706; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:01:58 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:01:58 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Mike Smith Cc: Sergey Babkin , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows In-Reply-To: <200011280356.eAS3ulF23058@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well, I sent in my vote for a FreeBSD port ... if I can avoid having to reboot into Windows so that I can use some of the win business apps, and all for <$100, I'd be happy ... On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > I spoke to these folks at Linuxworld about 18 months ago. AFAIR, their > product is basically a port of SCO's DOS/Merge, and the ABI between the > userspace and kernelspace components is fairly well understood. > > The amount of work involved in making it run on FreeBSD would probably be > comparable to the work involved in the VMware port (ie. reasonable but > not excessive). > > > I've noticed in InfoWorld a mention of a new Windows emulation > > product for Linux, Wind4Lin. So I went on their web-site > > > > http://www.netraverse.com/ > > > > The problem is that their stuff seems to be strongly tied to the > > Linux kernel, and they provide a whole lot of sub-versions for > > various Linux distributions. > > > > So I've sent them e-mail asking if they plan to add FreeBSD support. > > The answer I got is that they are not sure if there is a big enough > > market on FreeBSD, up to now they got less than 100 requests for > > a port. So if you think that their product may be something > > interesting for you, please send e-mail to > > and show up as a potential buyer! > > > > -SB > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > -- > ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his > rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want > to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force > people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message