Fully off-topic, but.....
I can't really give you any info on FreeMWare, but VMWare is an
excellent product, and if you're in some position where you absolutely
_have_ to run a VM, the $75 price tag is not that steep. You can also get a
free 30 day license, and as far as I know you can renew ad nauseum... The
only complaint I have is the memory requirements, but then you _are_ running
2 OSes...
I have a laptop with VMWare & run VMs for Win2kRC2 and Win98SE - and
I rarely power them on for anything other than the "ooohhh" factor it
induces in my coworkers. I really though the VM's would come in handy, but
just about everything I do these days has a Linux counterpart and I can stay
MS-free....
YMMV
Don
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David van Balen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:40 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] vmware alternative
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> 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
>
>
