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Hi Thierry, |
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It's good news that Parallels worked that well for you that |
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quickly. Was it pretty straight forward to bring up? |
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Any thoughts on whether it would be likely to work in a chroot'ed |
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32-bit environment on my 64-bit Gentoo machine? |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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On 3/10/06, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@××××××××.ch> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 09 March 2006 15.30, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > On 3/9/06, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@××××××××.ch> wrote: |
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> > > On Thursday 09 March 2006 03.45, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > > > Thierry, |
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> > > > Thanks for the response. I tried the player. It emerged but didn't |
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> > > > run complaining that I hadn't configured it. With no good instructions |
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> > > > about to get me through that quickly I've put the idea to bed for now. |
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> > > > I'll revisit it later if it makes sense. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Thanks much, |
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> > > > Mark |
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> > > |
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> > > I just came accross an article takling about a new program names |
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> > > "parallels" (www.parallels.com) that is supposed to do the same thing as |
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> > > vmware while being less expensive. |
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> > > |
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> > > No ideas as to ebuilds but I'll give it a look - it should be able to run |
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> > > OS/2 and I'd like to see that. |
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> > > |
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> > > Thierry |
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> > |
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> > Very interesting! For $49 it might be worth a try. |
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> > |
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> > Their downloads page for the trial version references a 'Gentoo |
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> > ebuilds archive'. That's a good sign. (I think...) ;-) |
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> > Thanks! |
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> > |
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> > - Mark |
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> |
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> Well, I've tested it and now have my good old OS/2 back working, including nfs |
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> network! |
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> But I have that on my notebook - because Parallels doesn't configure on a 64 |
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> bit machine at the time. |
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> I also got news of a new Win4lin Pro version (Win4Lin uses qemu), and they are |
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> promoting their software. |
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> Also not that while some sell every release (vmware and, it seems, parallels |
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> have you pay every *.x release - Win4lin users have acces to every release |
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> since 1.0, maybe because it never workes properly ;) |
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> Well, the fact that their machine runs OS/2 geot parallels my money... brings |
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> back a lot of feelings :) |
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> Thierry |
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> |
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> -- |
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> The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a |
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> capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the |
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> safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? |
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> Frank Zappa |
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