Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:01:58 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011280001100.425-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <200011280356.eAS3ulF23058@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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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 <tgordon@netraverse.com> > > 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
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