| It's my Debian in a box [message #78424] |
Mon, 15 January 2007 13:00 |
TCB
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Registered: July 2007
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http://www.virtualbox.org/
This might be a last second, Hail Mary move to keep VMWare visible at the
horizon, but Innotek has GPL'd (v. 2 only, extra credit if you know why that
matters) VirtualBox. Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows hosts with an OS X beta,
and will run damn near anything as a guest, from OS/2 to FreeBSD. Binary
installers for the 'free for personal and evaluation' use for XP and various
free software flavors (including Debian, yay!), so you don't need a compiler
to install it.
I got XP running on my Debian laptop in about an hour. This would be a very,
very safe way for some of you to have surfing/email reading ability on an
audio box. Install Ubuntu or Fedora Core (or better yet Debian) in a VM and
run that with NAT for networking and you'll have a devil of a time infecting
yourself. Or just get your feet wet with other OS options. Performance on
GNU/Linux with the kernel modules is very impressive, don't know about XP
but I'll probably try it tonight when I get home. It looks like they're even
working on getting video acceleration to work.
TCB
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