Re: Hurd on VMware ?
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 01:48:43PM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:41:53AM -0500, Cowboy wrote:
> > >
> > > I hadn't thought about VMWare, but it has several advantages.
> >
> > Just for the record, it has also the disadvantage of being
> > proprietary software (read: non-free).
>
> True, that is a disadvantage - but as long as we do not get dependent on it
> in any way - why not make use of it? For the moment it is just a matter of
> comfort: Some people buy two computers to create a network for the hurd,
> why should not others buy a second "virtual" computer for the same
> purpose?
I don't want to start a philosophical discussion, but working with and free
software is only barely related to convenience for me.
> > > For me, the ability to make a SCSI disk appear to be an IDE disk,
> > > has temporarily solved several problems.
> >
> > We would still like to solve the real problem, though ;)
>
> As soon as we have solved this problem and many others like the hurd
> console and the X-Servers under hurd, there will be no reason to use
> VMware any more (except for people who do real work on the kernel and
> have plenty of crashes every day...)
I think that there will always be people who will pull the convenience
argument. "Just this little piece of non-free software until there is a free
replacement". There is always a further little piece of convenient non-free
software out there that might be desireable to some.
However, I really don't care very much if you use some non-free software or
not. I just wanted to point it out to those who might wonder why VMWare is
not widely advocated if it is such a cool thing.
Thanks,
Marcus
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