I suddenly got this idea that "would it be easier to make emulator disk than LiveCD ?". An advantage of LiveCD is that you can distribute them on disks and users can boot from CD without installing anything. But there are potential hardware compatibility issues. On the other hand, there are two open-source emulators out there and many more commercial ones. Although installation of emulator is required, it offers a real desktop environment to use than LiveCD. And I think it is much easy to prepare emulator disk than LiveCD.
For open-source emulator, there are qemu and virtualbox. For commercial ones, VMware and VirtualPC are free to download for Windows. We can pick a light-weight Linux or FreeBSD, then set up GNUstep and Etoile manually. The size of emulator disk may be small than LiveCD. Whenever we have bug report or new release, we can just update emulator disk as we update our own machine. It is much easier than re-create LiveCD every time and test it. Comments ? Yen-Ju _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
