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/home/liquidat: Review: InnoTek’s VirtualBox

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 14, 2007

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“Almost a month ago InnoTek, the co-developer of VirtualPC,
released their Virtual Machine as Open Source. The software was
formerly not targetted at desktop users, but that changed when it
was released under the GPL. This review tries to shed some light on
the question if VirtualBox can get some market share between Vmware
and Qemu.

“VirtualBox is released as GPL, therefore you can expect that
becomes part of every distribution eventually. However, Fedora does
not provide any precompiled packages…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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