On Monday 18 August 2008 11:42:59 Oren Beck wrote:

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:

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On Monday 18 August 2008 09:20:34 Oren Beck wrote:

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I had thought of using a USB HD resident distro in QEMU mode, began research on "how-to's" and found issues mitigating the full urility.Such as - QEMU mode distros to my research depend on unfree code in a windows environment at present. Is my understanding correct?

No. Qemu is GPL and cannot be linked with unfree code at all.

Phrased as "Cannot be linked legally or ethically perhaps- yet there are claims it has been so linked and still is for some situations

The only possibility is that kqemu *might* be closed on Windows, but that is/would be legal because the author holds the copyright to qemu. However, in any case, kqemu is not required for qemu, and qemu will run just fine without it, albeit a little slower.

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And public kiosk mode sites like the Kc Library might not let me load QEMU at all.

Kiosks generally won't let you load foreign binaries at all. Not just qemu, but also Thunderbird or anything else. If they allow executing arbitrary binaries, then qemu should work just fine out of the box.

Yeah- that security hole Vs usability bug factor seems to doom Qemu on kosks

The point is that if a computer will let you run Thunderbird, it should run qemu just fine too.