what difference does it make if the accelerator is GPL'd or not?
A couple years down the line, if he became bored with the project, it might not work with modern distros. Without the source available to recompile, it'd suddenly become unusable. It wouldn't be the first time I've seen that happen with closed source applications in Linux.
From trying out Knoppix, I'm pretty impressed by the speed. It's been long enough since I last tried qemu with knoppix that I can't say if the new module is helping out to a large extent, but it's still pretty cool. The downside is that I tried installing Windows98, and on rebooting it dies with a "windows protection error". On doing some searching, it seems this is a known problem with the 9x series using this module.
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what difference does it make if the accelerator is GPL'd or not?
A couple years down the line, if he became bored with the project, it might not work with modern distros. Without the source available to recompile, it'd suddenly become unusable. It wouldn't be the first time I've seen that happen with closed source applications in Linux.
From trying out Knoppix, I'm pretty impressed by the speed. It's been long enough since I last tried qemu with knoppix that I can't say if the new module is helping out to a large extent, but it's still pretty cool. The downside is that I tried installing Windows98, and on rebooting it dies with a "windows protection error". On doing some searching, it seems this is a known problem with the 9x series using this module.