Testing thread about nothing (I'm trying to diagnose an LQ-related Firefox issue)
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Yeah, I figured it out for firefox and chrome. Somehow it's a little less interesting knowing I could be running Windows and spoofing a kewl Linux distro.
But then my main "challenge" is running a graphical browser in a vm w/ 128M of RAM out of the 256 total in the host machine. firefox or chrome would be sleeping dogs under those constraints while netsurf is at least tolerable!
Can you tell I have time on my hands? Wish I was home with my Slack box...
Last edited by JimBrewster; 03-12-2010 at 09:06 AM.
Reason: closed my quotes around "challenge"
Test posting from Haiku (The open-source BeOS clone). It's slow as hell in VirtualBox! Oh well, I suppose the OS is so foreign that VB does a lot of emulation...
I can't get the LiveCD to run on my Arch machine; the monitor probably doesn't support whatever refresh rate Haiku sets by default.
Also testing to see if th BeOS useragent icon will actually work under a real BeOS-like OS...yay, it works!
The thing that annoys me about Haiku, though (at least in VB), is that everything uses 100% CPU! Even mouse movement! Practically slows the system to a crawl.
EDIT: Just tried it in QEMU. kqemu acceleration doesn't work (causes the kernel to crash), so it's actually worse than VB.
Really I think the only way to get it to run properly is to try it on bare metal — but of course, I can't do that for reasons stated in my previous post. My Ubuntu machine prolly wouldn't fare any better, either — either the same thing would happen ("Frequency out of range" or a similar error on the monitor), or it would work, but being that this machine has a widescreen monitor, the graphics would look all stretched out.
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Oh well, I suppose the OS is so foreign that VB does a lot of emulation...
My Ubuntu machine prolly wouldn't fare any better, either — either the same thing would happen ("Frequency out of range" or a similar error on the monitor), or it would work, but being that this machine has a widescreen monitor, the graphics would look all stretched out.
