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Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday October 20, 2005 @06:37PM from the just-like-the-real-thing dept.

rfinnvik writes "VMWare Inc. has released a new free (as in beer) virtual machine runtime called VMware Player. According to VMWare, this free VM runtime makes it possible for anyone to run virtual machines created in their Workstation, GSX or ESX products. It also runs virtual machines created in Microsoft's virtualization products. The runtime is available for both Windows and Linux."

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see, now I'm gonna try linux.. (Score:3, Funny)

by way2trivial ( 601132 ) writes: on Thursday October 20, 2005 @06:40PM (#13840267) Homepage Journal

why- cause it really WONT cost me anything to try...

Just pray I'm a vocal member of a new majority...

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Re:This could be very cool for demoing Linux apps (Score:3, Funny)

by Trigun ( 685027 ) writes: <evil@evi l e m pire.ath.cx> on Thursday October 20, 2005 @07:26PM (#13840610)

This would be perfect for my office. In fact the only thing better would be if I could get virtual employees. Causing problems? No problem, just load another secretary image.

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Re:So, can someone upload a blank virtual machine? (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 20, 2005 @08:02PM (#13840850)

Here you go!!! [vmware.com] (I hacked VMware's website and put this up just so you could get a free VM. Power to the people. H@x0r 73h p1@n37.

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Huh? (Score:3, Funny)

by Gadren ( 891416 ) writes: on Thursday October 20, 2005 @08:27PM (#13841029)

People BUY VMWare? O_o

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Re:This could be very cool for demoing Linux apps (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 20, 2005 @08:42PM (#13841117)

They leave a lot of room on the disk for your, uh, "browser cache."

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Show us! (Score:3, Funny)

by A nonymous Coward ( 7548 ) writes: on Thursday October 20, 2005 @08:52PM (#13841174)

just load another secretary image

Can we see some samples?

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Re:Use of Virtual Machines for 16-bit OSes (Score:2, Funny)

by not-my-real-name ( 193518 ) writes: on Thursday October 20, 2005 @09:26PM (#13841369) Homepage

Wow! I am simply in awe.

Somebody went through a lot of effort to type that in. I'll have to save it in case I need to impress some non-technical people.

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see, now I'm gonna try linux.. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:This could be very cool for demoing Linux apps (Score:3, Funny)

Re:So, can someone upload a blank virtual machine? (Score:3, Funny)

Huh? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:This could be very cool for demoing Linux apps (Score:1, Funny)

Show us! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Use of Virtual Machines for 16-bit OSes (Score:2, Funny)

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