From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) Subject: Re: Packaging Linux Date: 21 Nov 1992 01:09:06 GMT
Quoting Neklan_Brozensky@mindlink.bc.ca (Neklan Brozensky) in article <17612@mindlink.bc.ca>:
>BTW I'm a new linux user, and like the original poster of this thread, I
>agree that A simple prepackaged Xwindow linux could really make some noise on
>the desktop, but *only* when it has DOS compatibility.
I'd go with this. Linux already has an 8086 emulation mode, I believe;
is it really hard to do an "80386-in-priv-mode" emulation? It means
catching all the exceptions when it tries to execute a privileged
instruction, doing ``the right thing'' for that instruction, and
returning control; but it means that people can run Windows in a
compatibility box. Having done that, they could even run one of those
products that allows X and Windows side-by-side, and put Unix sessions
in those X windows. Heavy and slow, but if they really want Windows...
note that I only know about these things in theory, and not in practice.
I'd also suggest you *sell* it. Find people who want to make money
supporting it, put it in a pretty box with lots of disks and nice
manuals and stuff, and let people find out about the license as a
pleasant surprise when they get it. You want it on shelves in computer
shops...
...but maybe you know all this stuff already.
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