Subject: GNUstep receives help from VMware
Date: Dec 10th, 2001
From: Laurent Julliard (GNUstep project)
VMware Inc., a company well known for its PC virtualizer
software, has responded positively to the GNUstep project team who
asked for free VMware Workstation 3.0 licenses.
The four licenses donated by VMWare Inc. to the GNUstep project
will allow GNustep developers to run Openstep 4.2 while developing
GNUstep on their Linux workstation. Although the OpenStep operating
system is no longer supported, it is still a useful reference for
the GNUstep implementation and the new Cocoa Framework of MAC OS X
is also heavily based on the OpenStep specification.
GNUstep, a project from the Free Software Foundation, provides
an Object-Oriented application development framework and tool set
for use on a wide variety of computer platforms. GNUstep is based
on the original OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc. (now
Apple). GNUstep is becoming more and more stable every day and is
used in a production environment by several companies.
VMware Inc. offers VMware workstation 3.0, a software product
that allows you to run many guest operating systems on a single
Linux or Windows workstation. Free 30 day evaluation licenses are
available from the VMware Web site. Although not officially
supported by VMware, Openstep 4.2 for Intel runs on VMware 3.0
Workstation. See below for installation and setup instructions.
GNUstep project: www.gnustep.org
VMware Inc.: www.vmware.com
Installing OpenStep 4.2 on VMware 3.0:
http://www.moldus.org/~laurent/GNUstep/OS42_Install.html