On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Justin Zygmont wrote: > > ftp://solarflow.dyndns.org/pub/wabi > > [ Sorry I'm posting so much as of late. I'm an "enthusiastic > newbie" to this list. Just let me know if I'm "drowning out" > everyone else. ] > > Is this thing now "free [beer]" for Linux? I.e., does Caldera "own" > it now and has released it as such? Or not? Or has simply licensed > it from someone else? > > [ I notice you still have to have Windows 3.x, but that's fine. I > actually have 4 "legal copies" myself (and none in use). ] > > BTW, I've never used Wabi myself, just WINE and VMWare. I've heard > as you said, it's the "most compatible" for 16-bit > Windows/programs. I pretty much understand the differences between > ... > > - WINE (BSD)
I thought Wine used the MIT license? > - Plex86 (GPL?) > A VHM layer for UNIX/x86. Designed to be a free VMWare replacement > based on Bochs, which allows a number of x86 OSes to run (with > limited results right now). The guy who does this and Bochs got canned from Mandrake (? some Linux company) so it's future is shaky at best. > Is Wabi another architecture-independent/completely emulated > approach like Bochs? Or is it like VMWare, "'virtualized', but > still 'actual' x86 hardware usage"? I've seen Wabi for Solaris, or > is that just Solaris/x86? Or is the Wabi for Linux[/x86] a > "Linux/86 customized" one? I don't know what wabi is* but, I know they make x86 sbus cards for Sparcs so you can run windows programs under Solaris. * meaning in a technical sense, I do remember Wabi from years ago brian --- All progress is the work of fanatics All fanatics are the work of progress 12:00pm up 135 days, 22:54, 6 users, load average: 1.17, 1.30, 1.22 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
