<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Kris Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kris@pcbsd.com">kris@pcbsd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 02/06/2010 16:25, Arthur wrote:<br>
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>> I vote with Brody Dover for VirtualBox because it offers more than Wine does.<br>
>><br>
>> I could never get Wine to run WordPerfect or Adobe Acrobat (not<br>
>> Reader) and certain OCR programs. Now that VirtualBox was ported to<br>
>> FreeBSD and PCBSD gave us a PBI for it, I have no further need for<br>
>> Wine. VirtualBox is our friend.<br>
>><br>
>> However, Wine would work for those who do not have a Windows license<br>
>> (and who could find fault with that!), so it is needed.<br>
>><br>
>> VirtualBox runs Windows faster than Windows. VirtualBox is our friend.<br>
>><br>
>> VirtualBox lets you run other operating systems too (FreeBSD, PCBSD,<br>
>> and Linux) so it's good for testing. VirtualBox is our friend.<br>
>><br>
>> VirtualBox is under rapid development. VirtualBox is our friend.<br>
>><br>
>> I'm hoping VirtualBox adds USB support to the OSE Edition soon.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Ian Robinson<br>
>> Salem, Ohio<br>
><br>
> Ian,<br>
><br>
> You have to remember that soon Oracle will be buying Sun and they<br>
> might not keep VB going or do something dumb like charge for it. Case<br>
> in point: Crystal Ball. Used to be owned by a small company called<br>
> Decisioneering and they used to offer a great concurrent license<br>
> product for my University. Oracle bought Crystal Ball, killed the<br>
> concurrent license deal and now charge per-seat. It was kind of a<br>
> dick move on Oracle's part and it put the screws to the faculty /<br>
> students who used it. I would not put it past Oracle to pull some<br>
> similarly stupid move with VB if only to make money off it. JMTC:<br>
> compared to how long VMWare's been around and how long VB has been<br>
> around, VMWare feels the heat on their ass from a VERY well rounded<br>
> product like VB. We'll see what happens. I agree that WINE has it's<br>
> place but when you have VB, why putz around with WINE when you can<br>
> fire up a licensed OS VM and run your app as it was meant to run?<br>
><br>
> Arthur<br>
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</div></div>Both of them have their place :) I just VB for testing ISO's, and<br>
running full VM's, however if I want to play Left4Dead or some 3D game,<br>
usually Wine is the way to go.<br>
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Kris Moore<br>
PC-BSD Software<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">Agreed - Virtual Box is my absolute favorite testbed for ISOs, and I love the fact that I can migrate a 'test box' between hosts so easily. I actually have a whole VB based work machine on an SD card that moves around between PCs/Laptops.<br>
Sort of like PortableApps++ :)<br><br><br>-- <br>Thanks,<br>Mike Bybee<br>