From November 11 2024, VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation are now available for free to everyone for commercial, educational, and personal users. These are very good news because now I can use VMware to improve the compatibility of TextureMind Framework and all the derived software with different kind of Windows versions and Linux distros. Currently, the framework has an experimental porting for Linux which is compatible only with Ubuntu24 (you can already download DWorkSim 0.2 and test it). I will setup different virtual machines to extend the compatibility to the most relevant Linux distros in the market, like Debian, Rhel, Rocky, Centos, Sles and Gentoo, following this chart:

With virtual machines available, it will be alot easier than before. I already have a strategy to increase the range of supported distros for the framework and the derived software. Basically, I will create builds with old distros to cover also the latest ones (thanks to backward compatibility). The aim is to make it possible to download a single zip with the software and make it run without installing anything else. The virtual machines will be used to extend the support for different versions of Windows as well.