Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 26th Nov 2008 20:53 UTC
openSUSE is adopting a new license which is based on the the license used by Fedora. The new license will be used for the release of openSUSE 11.1 . "Users no longer need to agree to the license. This is not an EULA, it's a license notice," says Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager. This is an effort make openSUSE easy to re-distribute and make modifications. To learn more about what is new in openSUSE 11.1 check out this review of the 11.1 beta4 release.
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I've been using VirtualBox. Not out of preference, as I preferred VMWare Server when I used Windows. I just can't get VMWare Server installed properly in Linux. I recently installed Windows 98 SE in VirtualBox, and wow... it runs like crap. Until now, I thought the program ran alright. Totally destroyed my halfway-decent opinion of the program.
Now, okay, you might say it's a ten year OS... it's old. And it is. But I actually thought that was one of the strengths of open source: if someone has a desire for something, it'll very likely be implemented; commercial decisions hardly ever tend to happen. Surely someone out there likes to play around with older OSes out of nostalgia... right? And I don't know, when you consider how old of software runs on Windows XP (and Win9x before it), ten years doesn't seem to be that long. And yet, I did some searching and it appears that the VirtualBox developers have no intention of improving Windows 98's abysmal performance.
Looks like they might as well remove Windows 98 (and probably the other Win9x-based Windows) from VirtualBox's selection of OS type. A two-hour install of the OS, fishing around for a working display driver (scitech), getting the right version, fiddling with Google for registration codes, finding Rain to reduce processor usage from the constant 100%... all that while the processor runs HOT at 100%, is ridiculous. Not to mention, again, the slowness of it all thanks to the full CPU use (which really doesn't improve even after installing Rain--though I originally thought it would). How is that "supported?" Barely supported, maybe.
That changes my virtualization plans; I'll probably just run Windows XP on a machine and run Win98SE in VMWare instead.