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Yes, an Eee PC can run 10 operating systems in parallel
- sz 16y agoWhy?
- nreece 16y agoThat's what people wondered when Twitter and Facebook (and many other "projects") were first launched. Pun aside, what I mean to convey is that experimentation is a vital aspect for innovation and hackership.
- lamby 16y ago> That's what people wondered when Twitter and Facebook were first launched. And some people still do. ("Get off my lawn" is cool, right?)
- shrikant 16y agoWhere's the pun in that?
- megablast 16y agoYes, remind me of an old quote. They laughed at Newton, they laughed at Einstein... but they also laughed at Bobo the clown. Just because someone asks why is not positive thing.
- sswam 16y agowhy? because an Eee PC was the only desktop box I had available at the time, and I wanted to test the portability of a program to various different systems.
- sz 16y agoCool. I didn't mean to criticize, just wondered what the use was.
- sswam 16y agoI guess the main thing that came out of it was finding out how to run NetBSD and OpenBSD in recent qemu, which is not totally obvious, they didn't work out of the box. It took a bit of searching around and asking questions!
- jacquesm 16y agoIt's funny how you can now refer to a 1Ghz/1GB machine as a 'not very powerful' computer with a straight face. Your average computer scientist would have given his right arm and his first born for such a machine not all that long ago. Sure qemu is efficient, but that little machine is plenty powerful in its own right. The fact that you normally don't actually use much of that power is why you can do this in the first place!
- varjag 16y agoAmen. I'm usually taking my personal AspireOne on business trips. Our operations guy refuses to stock netbooks because they are "underpowered". And, at least once I had our contractor remark that it's impossible to work on such an underpowered machine - while it was happily rebuilding Linux kernel at that very moment. The thing's so much lighter and compact than company laptops, it makes huge difference when you have to climb a 70m tower with it, or unfold it during 13-hour flight. And most typical tasks in personal computing are not resource-intensive at all.
- jacquesm 16y agoI think it's all relative to what you're doing at the moment. I have this scary machine as a desktop here, that basically functions as a glorified terminal most of the time, but when I start coding I'm so happy that it is as large as it is. But that's mostly due to software bloat and a memory hungry strategy, I'm sure you could do the same stuff with a much smaller machine if programmed more efficient. I'd hate to travel with this rig :)
- sswam 16y agoI got an HP mini this week, runs Ubuntu 10.04 very nicely, and has a lovely matte screen. It was the only laptop in shop with a nice matte screen, even the super $3000 3d laptop had a glossy screen! Who wants a glossy screen, are they insane? I deliberately use slower machines so that I write more efficient code!
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- lamnk 16y agoWhat matter to me is how they perform under load. IO/network/cpu benchmarks between your 10 VM would be probably more interesting.
- megablast 16y agoNot really. There is no way they are not going to suck, even just one does not work that well.
- sswam 16y agoI wouldn't do well under load, but it was fine for running an interactive shell without X. There might be a bit of swapping when switching your attention from one VM to another, only a few seconds. Qemu is a nice way to try out some different systems! I'll try running the VMs on my new mini laptop and see how that goes.
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- ww520 16y agoHow does one install a MacOS in a VM? Does Apple allow it?
- cryptoz 16y agoHackintosh. And no, not to my knowledge.