I'll conceed the points listed in the replies. I knew that Bochs had been around for a while and I agree that its not a new idea. I hadnt thought of it in that light. It just struck me that when vmware was made available, a new project called freemware was announced. I would agree with the comments about the learning benifit of it as well. I think it will be a great project if people contribute to it like other opensource projects have been.
I'm far from against people creating software for free but what is going to drive comapnies to release software for linux if someone just goes out and copies what they are doing? Im not against paying for linux software at all. I still buy all my copies of linux instead of dloading them so i can help out the various organizations. What really pisses me off though is that someone is going to release a warezed copy of this product, which happens to e a damn fine piece of software.
I have a feeling if the collective slashdot community and linux users in general get behind this we may have some results. I fear that the recent announcement by nvidia that they would release specs for TNT2 may be a smokescreen. I've submitted my email and I ask that others do the same.
With the cost of cd burners being so low now, you really don't even need to have an mp3 player. I decode tons of mp3s from approved bands and burn them to cds so I can listen to them in the car. This is where I see mp3 technology. I really don't need a portable player. Hell cdr's are only 2 bucks a pop.
I would be careful as to what this returns. Our web server is behind the firewall and it told us we were running IIS 4.0 on BSD/OS. heheheheh. I didnt know there was a port;)
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I'll conceed the points listed in the replies. I knew that Bochs had been around for a while and I agree that its not a new idea. I hadnt thought of it in that light. It just struck me that when vmware was made available, a new project called freemware was announced. I would agree with the comments about the learning benifit of it as well. I think it will be a great project if people contribute to it like other opensource projects have been.
I'm far from against people creating software for free but what is going to drive comapnies to release software for linux if someone just goes out and copies what they are doing? Im not against paying for linux software at all. I still buy all my copies of linux instead of dloading them so i can help out the various organizations. What really pisses me off though is that someone is going to release a warezed copy of this product, which happens to e a damn fine piece of software.
If you havent read snowcrash, read it. This sounds alot like that book.
I have a feeling if the collective slashdot community and linux users in general get behind this we may have some results. I fear that the recent announcement by nvidia that they would release specs for TNT2 may be a smokescreen. I've submitted my email and I ask that others do the same.
With the cost of cd burners being so low now, you really don't even need to have an mp3 player. I decode tons of mp3s from approved bands and burn them to cds so I can listen to them in the car. This is where I see mp3 technology. I really don't need a portable player. Hell cdr's are only 2 bucks a pop.
If I'm not mistaken I saw an alpha that had MILO flashed into the bios at the linux general store. Not for sale. Someone had just done it.
I would be careful as to what this returns. Our web server is behind the firewall and it told us we were running IIS 4.0 on BSD/OS. heheheheh. I didnt know there was a port ;)
I wouldn't really want a computer form a company that installs the bios on a hard drive partition. Who the hell thought of THAT one?