<story><title>VirtualBox 4.3 released</title><url>https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-announce/2013-October/000100.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thex86</author><text>VirtualBox is one of those projects that is a very important part of my daily use. But somehow I feel that it doesn&amp;#x27;t get much love from the open source community. Is it just me?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Argorak</author><text>VirtualBox has a quality problem: &lt;a href=&quot;https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lkml.org&amp;#x2F;lkml&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;317&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This has gotten a lot better, but for quite a while `vbox` was the thing that made my computer lock up most of the time, especially the USB drivers.</text></comment>
<story><title>VirtualBox 4.3 released</title><url>https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-announce/2013-October/000100.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thex86</author><text>VirtualBox is one of those projects that is a very important part of my daily use. But somehow I feel that it doesn&amp;#x27;t get much love from the open source community. Is it just me?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autodidakto</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know the full story, but from what I&amp;#x27;ve heard, it probably involves things like 1) Oracle owns it 2) It requires a non-free compiler to build the BIOS</text></comment>