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Hi Elias, |
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Friday, July 13, 2007, 1:23:23 PM, you wrote: |
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> On Friday 13 July 2007 12:07:57 Michael George wrote: |
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>> I see vmware-player has disappeared from portage. I did a quick search |
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>> and didn't find anything about why and haven't noticed it here. Is |
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>> there a URL to information on why it was dropped from portage? |
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>> Thanks! |
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> I don't know why it has been dropped, but there are alternatives: |
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> - vmware-server (also available for free, currently masked, but newer versions |
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> are also provided by the 'vmware' overlay) |
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> - VirtualBox (runs IMHO very fast, can use existing vmware disks too) |
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> Regards, Elias P. |
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VMware Player is in Gentoo Overlays tree: |
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/usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player/vmware-player-2.0.0.45731.ebuild |
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Sergey |
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