[ Thanks to Andrea Cordingly for
this link. ]
“Open-source software has grown steadily as an alternative to
proprietary software. However, current Windows-dependent users have
pointed out difficult hurdles that prevent them from migrating:
Windows-only professional applications and games. In such
instances, dual-booting may not be practical, besides being
annoying.“Last month I was thinking that the Portland project would be a
middle-term solution. Based on this and other research I thought
there may be a beneficial interim method that can solve the
problem: to run Windows as a virtual machine under GNU/Linux, while
taking time to develop definitive multiplatform
applications…”