On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> I've been testing vmware running nt on my system and it works fine except
> for that fact that nt runs pretty slow on 32 mb of memory.
> I'd been planning to buy it, but I just came across FreeMWare
> (www.freemware.org) which aims to be a free alternative to vmware. There
> isn't a whole lot of info as to what point the product is at, although it
> seems to be very experimental at this point, and I was wondering if anyone
> out there has any more detailed info on how this is progressing and when
> they plan to release a _relatively_ functional version... it would be
> really cool if I could get this free product instead of paying for vmware
> (up until now I have paid nothing at all for any of the software I'm
> running on under linux and vmware is about to become the first).
>
>
> DvB
I wouldn't place any bets on freem. That Kevin guy who is in charge
of the project wrote 'bochs', a PC-Emulator which isn't really worth
trying (well, my impression from last time I've checked). Have a look
yourself, it's free for non-commercial use (www.bochs.com).
OTOH you spend 99$ and get a ready product now. And spend some money
on RAM (maybe not advisable at the moment, but some time those
ridiculous prices *have* to drop). It's no use trying with less than
128MB. The more the better of course.
Maybe it's not 'pc' to advise the use of commercial software, but vm
works well and their support staff is very responsive and helpful.
They have included the educational pricing scheme when the community
asked them to do so. 'vm' lets more people use Linux without that
tedious re-booting, so I consider it a Good Thing(tm). Of course it
would be better, if it were free, but you can't have everything.
Nihil est ab omne partum beatum.
Regards
tom
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