Comments on: Novell Spreads Microsoft Inside GNU/Linux Whereas LINA Spreads GNU/Linux Inside Windows http://techrights.org/2010/01/25/zenoss-and-lina-example/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: uberVU - social comments http://techrights.org/2010/01/25/zenoss-and-lina-example/comment-page-1/#comment-79158 uberVU - social comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:04:34 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=25919#comment-79158 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by schestowitz: #Novell Spreads Microsoft Inside #GNU #Linux Whereas #LINA Spreads *NIX Inside #Windows http://ur1.ca/knrm... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: dyfet http://techrights.org/2010/01/25/zenoss-and-lina-example/comment-page-1/#comment-79108 dyfet Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:36:43 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=25919#comment-79108 I had not heard of Lina before so I was curious. I did not think the Lina site did a very good job of explaining what they actually do, however, which is a shame. What I did puzzle out of it is they seem to use a baseline Debian GNU/Linux baseline distro running in what I am gathering might well be a rather heavily modified VirtualBox that integrates nicer as their underlying methodology of a universal GNU/Linux platform, since they talk about how Lina is not compatible with existing VirtualBox installations. They apparently have an native external package manager which I am guessing installs things into the VBox vdi, and perhaps they do things like map user home folders and host drives back into VirtualBox mapped drives and such. I actually do not think this is a bad idea if that is what they have done and I recall VirtualBox is a GPL licensed vm that runs on all the platforms they speak about running on so it would be possible to do many creative things with it. I had not heard of Lina before so I was curious. I did not think the Lina site did a very good job of explaining what they actually do, however, which is a shame. What I did puzzle out of it is they seem to use a baseline Debian GNU/Linux baseline distro running in what I am gathering might well be a rather heavily modified VirtualBox that integrates nicer as their underlying methodology of a universal GNU/Linux platform, since they talk about how Lina is not compatible with existing VirtualBox installations.

They apparently have an native external package manager which I am guessing installs things into the VBox vdi, and perhaps they do things like map user home folders and host drives back into VirtualBox mapped drives and such. I actually do not think this is a bad idea if that is what they have done and I recall VirtualBox is a GPL licensed vm that runs on all the platforms they speak about running on so it would be possible to do many creative things with it.

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