VirtualBox 3.1.8 released... support for Lucid Lynx.

[Dotan Cohen]

On 10 May 2010 20:09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 05/10/2010 08:02 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> Among other fixes it contains support for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx hosts.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, Gilles. Why does support for a specific Linux distro have to
>> be enabled? Is there something fundamentally different about Lucid
>> Lynx that needs special support? I can understand coding support for
>> different OSes, such as Windows, but for yet another Linux distro?
>>
>>
>
> It's in the changelog:
> Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other hosts
> without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)
>
>

Thanks, I considered opening the changelog but the truth is that I was
interested in the more general "why" and not the specifics of this
particular time.



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