[aklug] Re: aklug Digest V8 #216

Is there a local repository for linux distros? If so url please. Thank you.

aklug@aklug.org wrote:
> aklug Digest Wed, 04 Nov 2009 Volume: 08 Issue: 216
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> In This Issue:
> [aklug] running legacy Vmware WS
> [aklug] Neuros TV - Kinda Cool
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> From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@acsalaska.net>
> Subject: [aklug] running legacy Vmware WS
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:49:25 -0900
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> I have been trying to find a substitute for running Vmware WS 5.5.x, without
> upgrading Vmware $$. The last kernel to natively support WS 5.5 was ~2.6.18 which
> I have been running. During my tests of Virtualbox using a more current kernel,
> Debian Lenny-2.6.26, I stumbled upon patches to WS 5.5 to run more modern kernels.
> I found a patch for WS 5.5.7/kernel 2.6.26, the patch works for WS 5.5.9 also.
> There are patches available up through kernel 2.6.31;
>
> http://www.insecure.ws/2009/04/21/vmware-specific-specific-55x-and-kernel-2629
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