On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am I reading this right?? They seem to be saying that IBM > now has something called VERDE, true free software, that does > VMware's job better than VMware. No, you're reading it wrong. First of all, VERDE isn't an IBM product; it comes from someone called Virtual Bridges. Second, it's not really clear from the Virtual Bridges website what their product actually is, but it seems to be specifically for virtualizing Linux desktops, which leads one to think it's not a general-purpose virtual machine like VMware or VirtualBox (or KVM or QEMU ...). What IBM is offering is a packaged Ubuntu desktop running in one of these beasties and supporting Domino (which it already supports on Linux anyway). It's no use to you if you want to run Windows on Linux for example. I see no prima facie reason it couldn't be made to work with Fedora. poc PS Note that VirtualBox does compete directly with VMware, and is true free software in one of its versions. I've been using it in place of VMware for several months and find it a lot less hassle to get working and rather lighter in resource demands. However the USB emulation still needs some work for certain devices such as ipods. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
