Crashdamage Posted May 15, 2004 Report Share Posted May 15, 2004 Apparently Mandrake will be including Win4Lin patches in the standard Mandrake kernels: http://www.netraverse.com/company/press/ne...a2ae39ae5b2917f Very good news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarissi Posted May 15, 2004 Report Share Posted May 15, 2004 The way it reads to me, is that Netraverse will be providing the win4lin kernels for mandrake 10.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted May 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2004 Well, it's doesn't *specifically* say that Mandrake's kernels will include the Netraverse patches, but it doesn't say no either. Not sure where you got that. The Win4Lin kernels have been available in Cooker for a while. Netraverse uses Mandrake as one of their standard test distros. And there have been hints on the Win4Lin mailing list that the Win4Lin patches were likely to be included the standard Mandrake kernels soon. I *think* this is the announcement that they did indeed get things worked out. Gentoo, Lindows, Xandros and several other distros already include the Win4Lin patches. I doubt Mandrake would want to be left out of that game for long unless doing so violated the GPL. It doesn't. Win4Lin is proprietary, but the kernel patches themselves are GPL'd. Anyway, I thought it was good news... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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