Hello Michael,

On 3/2/09 1:49 PM Michael Thayer wrote:

> The OSE Additions packages are maintained entirely by the distributions
> which supply them - we only provide our generic Additions package for
> all Linux systems - but since our Additions code for Linux guests is
> entirely open source they should fit in fine with non-OSE versions of
> VirtualBox.  

Nice to know. But what if the version does not fit? Debian guest tools
are at 1.6.6 IIRC. Would be nice to have them in the repo, to upgrade
the tools inside the machine when upgrading VB on the host.

> With the limitation (which actually applies to almost
> anything in a Linux distribution) that the distributions will probably
> not provide the latest version, so they may be lacking a few features,
> or contain the odd bug which has been fixed upstream.

Exactly.

Regards,
OJ
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got all the lawyers?
New Jersey had first choice.
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