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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > and show up as a potential buyer!
> >
> > -SB
> >
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