Back to the basics: improving user experience

George Brooke solar.george at googlemail.com
Sat Oct 18 01:08:20 CEST 2008


VBox OSE is fast than qemu (iirc) and still free. Speed would be
important for a development environment.

solar.george

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:31:06 +0200
Didier Raboud <didier at raboud.com> wrote:

> Christ van Willegen wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps another idea to lighten the core developers' load...
> > 
> > Invest a little time (a day or so?) to properly set up a VMWare
> > image that can be downloaded by developers that want to help in any
> > way.
> > 
> > Make it easy to update sources, and easy to build both kernel and
> > userland stuff, and also to report patches. This way, developers
> > don't need to invest loads of time into setting up stuff, if it can
> > be done in one fell swoop.
> > 
> > I, for one, would love to be able to run a VMWare image and dive
> > into developing and debugging/enhancing.
> > 
> > Christ van Willegen
> 
> s/VMWare/qemu (or kvm)/g
> 
> qemu is "more free" in my opinion... ;)
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> OdyX
> 
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