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For those of you that don't have Ubuntu natively installed on your computer (such as myself) there is a great answer to this problem: VirtualBox http://www.vir
by gibsonf1 17y ago
For those of you that don't have Ubuntu natively installed on your computer (such as myself) there is a great answer to this problem: VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/ http://www.virtualbox.org/ . I installed it recently on my XP laptop, and now enjoy Ubuntu in what seems to be native speed. In fact, my dev environment of slime/emacs sbcl is runing radically faster than lispworks slime/emacs in xp. I have a dual screen setup, so I have Ubuntu in full screen mode (you can switch out with ctrl f) in one monitor, and xp in the other. Life is good.
- dpritchett 17y agoI too am enjoying VirtualBox as a way of setting up discrete development environments. I've got one for PHP, one for Rails, and a general Ubuntu box for anything else I want to try out (e.g. Clojure). I documented my personal "get Ubuntu running via VirtualBox on XP" experience here: http://www.sharingatwork.com/2009/10/get-started-building-web-apps-with-your-own-ruby-on-rails-virtual-development-server/ http://www.sharingatwork.com/2009/10/get-started-building-we...
- gibsonf1 17y agoThat's really nice having an image with the Rails environment installed. Maybe I should do the same for slime/emacs/sbcl? (I'm not sure what the demand would be)
- dpritchett 17y agoThat's not a bad idea. Lau from bestinclass.dk has a screencast on getting Clojure going in a Ubuntu VM here: http://www.vimeo.com/8398020 http://www.vimeo.com/8398020
- WalterGR 17y agoI've been working (very slowly) on a VMWare VM tailored for Lisp hacking. I posted to http://www.lispforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=588 http://www.lispforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=588 to gauge demand. It didn't seem like there's much. I still plan on eventually "completing" it, but at the moment I'm sick of trying to get Emacs to behave in some small ways like other editors.