Re: OT: Old Computer Games (Was: Weekly Vocab #1.1.3 (repost #1))
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 14, 2006, 19:32 |
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-----Original Message-----
>From: Amanda Babcock Furrow <langs@...>
>Sent: Sep 14, 2006 3:02 PM
>To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
>Subject: Re: OT: Old Computer Games (Was: Weekly Vocab #1.1.3 (repost #1))
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>On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:31:28AM -0400, Paul Bennett wrote:
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>> The latest version of VMware is now free (as in beer), with large chunks
>> of functionality Free (as in speech).
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>Huh. VMware's site is very confusing, and very business-oriented - quite
>a surprise. Which one do I want, Server or Player? Why don't they have
>a "VMware Bare Metal" machine? :)
Server lets you make your own virtual machines.
Player only lets you use virtual machines made by someone else.
Player used to be the only free version, but ... I'm not clear on the exact version
distinctions for WS, GSX and ESX, but they released the Beta versions of Server
for free, and continued to do so with 1.0 and 1.0.1
VMware Bare Metal is essentially something called VMware ESX, which (as I understand
it) consists of just barely enough Linux to run the VMware server, the server
itself, and not much else, which boots straight into the server.
I don't know what the functional comparison is between ESX, GSX and Server, or
what the future of the ESX and GSX products is.
Paul
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