Portable desktop/applications for Linux. We have some wintools but with issues

[Luke Dashjr]

On Monday 18 August 2008 11:42:59 Oren Beck wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Luke Dashjr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 18 August 2008 09:20:34 Oren Beck wrote:
> >> I had thought of using a USB HD resident distro in QEMU mode, began
> >> research on "how-to's" and found issues mitigating the full urility.Such
> >> as - QEMU mode distros to my research depend on unfree code in a windows
> >> environment at present. Is my understanding correct?
> >
> > No. Qemu is GPL and cannot be linked with unfree code at all.
>
> Phrased as "Cannot be linked legally or ethically perhaps- yet there
> are claims it has been so linked and still is for some situations

The only possibility is that kqemu *might* be closed on Windows, but that 
is/would be legal because the author holds the copyright to qemu. However, in 
any case, kqemu is not required for qemu, and qemu will run just fine without 
it, albeit a little slower.

> >> And public kiosk mode sites like the Kc Library might not let me load
> >> QEMU at all.
> >
> > Kiosks generally won't let you load foreign binaries at all. Not just
> > qemu, but also Thunderbird or anything else. If they allow executing
> > arbitrary binaries, then qemu should work just fine out of the box.
>
> Yeah- that security hole Vs usability bug factor seems to doom Qemu on
> kosks

The point is that if a computer will let you run Thunderbird, it should run 
qemu just fine too.