Hi, I was hoping someone with actual experience running a recent VirtualBox on Fedora would step in and either tell "it's ok to use the Oracle repos" or "using the Oracle repos causes X, you have to do Y do workaround or use the repos from Y as they already solve X". []s, Fernando Lozano >---- Original Message ---- >From: Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> >To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Seg, Mai 30, 2011, 15:07 PM >Subject: Re: Re: Re: KVM x VirtualBox > >On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 13:58, <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Fernando, >> >> I'm used to not trust proprietary software vendor repos and packages > >Virtualbox is Free Software, with a GPL license. "Proprietary software >vendors" also applies to lots of other firms that also sponsor open >source projects. You need to cool down your preconceptions. > >In fact, Virtualbox got even more free under Oracle than it was under >Sun... with the full product available under a GPL license and the >propietary (freeware) stuff moved to the extensions package. > >While in the past, Virtualbox was available under two licenses, the >full was "freeware" and the OSS version lacked certain features. > >It seems to me that youÂve already made your judgement, so use the >repo that you please. > >FC >-- >users mailing list >users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
