OSEmulation really isn't

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 06:03:46 UTC 2006


On 7/3/06, Mike MacCana <mike.maccana at gmail.com> wrote:
> The OSEmulation page's content mainly describes things which aren't
> emulation (ie, WINE, Cedega, Xen, VMWare, QEmu with KQemu etc).
> Also it's name isn't as task based i.e., nobody specifically intends to
> emulate an OS, they intend to do something which requires them them to run
> another on inside Ubuntu.
>
> I think it'd be better if the content to was moved to a page with a name
> similar to 'RunningOtherOSsInsideUbuntu' or 'RunningAnotherOSInsideUbuntu'
> (but I'd like the list to make a better suggestion).
> Then redirecting OSEmulation to that page.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts, and can you help me think of a better name?
>
> Mike

I don't see that as badly named. Emulation is what people often refer
to that class of products (rightly or wrongly). It should just be
clear about what products are of what class.

Corey




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