I think the problem here is that CentOS isn't designed for personal use, nor do many of us feel that a binary only application should be included when a perfectly fine open source version is available. Also, I personally feel that the full version is more crippled than the open source version.

Maybe there should be a separate package for the full edition, though. I can't see any harm coming from that.

Thanks,
Brian McKenna

On Feb 3, 2008 10:54 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny@centos.org> wrote:
Is there any need for CentOS to build and distribute the OSE version of
VirtualBox?

The differences between the versions are here:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions

The reason I ask is that the Full version is free for personal use and
the restrictions (especially no USB or RDP) make the OSE version fairly
crippled, so I am not sure there is enough benefit to design and keep
updated the OSE RPM packages.

What does everyone think?

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes


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