[Gloucs] VirtualBox.

Geoff Bagley geoff.bagley at btinternet.com
Wed Sep 1 08:59:06 UTC 2010


Hi Matthew.


"virtualbox-ose"   is also in Debian, so I guess it must be OK.


Thanks for the steer.


Geoff.



Matthew Phillips wrote:

> On 1 September 2010 09:52, Geoff Bagley <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
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>> Although under the GPL license,  I understand that VirtualBox came from
>> Sun,  now swallowed by Oracle.
>>
>>
>> Is it still free, or is there a potential threat against what seems to be
>> the only FOSS virtualisation prog ?
>>
>>
>> Geoff
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> Well under ubuntu there are a few versions. Virtualbox and also
> virtualbox-ose (open source edition).
>
> I guess taking the ose version is the way to go, I'm using it and haven't
> noticed any missing features...
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