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  1. Re:This could be a good thing. by synthespian · · Score: 1 · on Will GPLv3 Drive Users from Linux to FreeBSD?

    Right now, for someone who wants a desktop system, I would recomend that you look at PC-BSD (see: http://www.pcbsd.org/). It is not a fork of FreeBSD. It's FreeBSD with nice end-user add ons, such as a graphical installer and PIBs. PIBs are apps packaged and easily installed (much like on Macs or Windows). PC-BSD got a lot of positive reviews.

    FreeBSD has more software than the other BSDs and has more commercial products being developed for it, such as some IDEs, back-up products, VMs (see: http://www.win4bsd.com/, http://serenityvirtual.com/), anti-virus (although geared toward corporate users, but see: http://www.kaspersky.com/kaspersky_security_mail_server?chapter=207716294) even an excelent Microsoft-Word commpatible Word Processor (see: http://www.softmaker.com/english/). Plus, Java certified by Sun.

    Also, a nice feature of BSDs is the ability to run software for Linux on them. I have Maple 8 runing on my FreeBSD and I did it after the thing just broke with the Debian upgrades.

  2. Re:OS/2 by tmasssey · · Score: 1 · on Which OS Makes the Best VMWare Host?
    That may have been a joke, but possible nonetheless:

    Serenity Virtual Server

    Allows you to run Windows, Linux and OS/2 as both a host and guest OS, and FreeBSD as a host-only OS.

  3. Maybe m$s attack on Lindows may come back to haunt by madodel · · Score: 1 · on Longhorn's Offical Name is Windows Vista

    Considering microsoft tortured Lindows and forced them to change a name that only a pinhead would confuse with a piece of junk like windows, you would think they would have investigated the name first.

    There is already a virtual operating system product called SVISTA. http://www.serenityvirtual.com/index.php Gee just one letter difference. Maybe its worth a few hundred million dollars to the company that has been using that name for a couple years now.

    Maybe people should chip in to a legal fund so Serenity Systems can sue Microsoft? Truly would be poetic justice.

  4. Re:Slashdot is definitely making a difference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Petition To Get OS/2 Open Source

    In 1999 Warp Server for eBusiness (WSeB)raised that to 2048MB - the following year the new Client version - the Merlin Convenience Package (MCP1) could set that limit for program loading to 3072MB. The third-party version of OS/2 with advanced installer [11 minutes from CD-boot to fully operational and on the www on one of my machines] and a host of additional applications/utilities; *eComStation* [eCS]from Serenity Systems International in Lewisville, TX debuted in 2000 and the latest release was Version 1.2 in Aug/Sept 2004, about three years more recent than the 32-bit windows XP
    See http://www.ecomstation.com/ and http://www.serenityvirtual.com/ [SVISTA Virtual machine based on eCS]

    OS/2-eCS boot drives can be pulled out of one box, stuck in another with entirely different brand/type of Video, different motherboard manufacturer, different CPU, different IRQ setup, different chipset for the drive controllers, different USB type, different type of monitor, hard drives up to 512GB and should come up looking exactly like it did on its previous host machine in 99% of all cases. It also will install and run on any Pentium[one] level machine that has 64MB of RAM, though it runs better with more and will use as much as is available - secret is not to enable any BIOS setting for RAM >64MB *for OS/2* as the BIOS writers never caught up with real-life, that hasn't been an option for *many* years!

    With 4MB of Video RAM I can have 38-pages of Desktop real estate under OS/2-eCS - I usually only have on average about 3, stacked vertically 1024 * 768 = 1024 * 2304 - many OS/2 users are running at as high as 2048 * ~1400 on their desktops. IBM OEM licensed the Scitech Display Doctor for all GRADD [Graphics Adapter Device Drivers]. There is just nothing out there [yes I have installed and occasionally use BeOS/RedHat/W2000 Pro] that remotely compares with the power of the user-friendly WPS [WorkPlace Shell], with many features impossible to implement on the Gates model!

    Mike O'Connor
    [not anonymous really - just not signed-up yet]

  5. Re:Still no PATA Support? by enosys · · Score: 1 · on Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released

    You could ask someone else to compile a patched kernel for you, or you could install Linux inside VMWare or something similar and then patch and compile the kernel inside that. All of these products can be evaluated for free. If you have a CD drive that Linux can access you could maybe even just boot a LiveCD like KNOPPIX and compile a new kernel using it.