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I've been using Nitrous.io (formerly Action.io) on my ChromeBook Pixel and loving it. I've been using my Pixel full-time as a development environment for a coup
by wycats 14y ago
I've been using Nitrous.io (formerly Action.io) on my ChromeBook Pixel and loving it. I've been using my Pixel full-time as a development environment for a couple of weeks now, and haven't given up in frustration yet :)
The Nitrous guys have been extremely responsive, fixing a bunch of bugs that were causing me problems (like awaken-from-sleep, problems with $COLUMNS on a retina display). Their terminal emulator is great; it even has mouse support (although it seems to be off by 1 diagonal column -- looking forward to seeing that fixed soon).
One extremely important point: by default today, ChromeOS discards tabs when it runs low on memory. This experience was sufficiently problematic for me that I almost gave up on the entire thing, until I learned about http://gigaom.com/2013/04/05/running-out-of-memory-on-a-chromebook-heres-a-30-second-solution/ http://gigaom.com/2013/04/05/running-out-of-memory-on-a-chro.... tl;dr Google is experimenting with zRAM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRam), which will eventually be on by default, and you can trivially enable it right now. Do it.
- stickhandle 14y agoWow - never heard of nitrous.io. Might be exactly what i've been hoping for ... what kind of dev have you been doing with it?
- wycats 14y agoI've been building: - a Rails plugin - a Rails app - an Ember app - Ember itself - Several small JS libraries that I hope to use in Ember Each of these projects gets its own tmux session (I didn't really know tmux before nitrous.io, and I have basically the same advice about tmux that I had about vim at http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convince-me-to-use-vim-was-wrong/ http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convi... -- use it to keep open sessions and learn more advanced features as you need them).
- simon_weber 14y agoI wasn't aware of the zRAM tip (I don't think I've ever hit the ram threshold). I'll be turning this on and adding it to the post; thanks. For the curious, there's a good explanatory post here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/chromebook-central/r27r3ZcchhM/V8Y5S0fy4bAJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/chromebook-central/r27r3Zcch.... edit: this will be on by default for r27 (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=218559 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=218559).
- raingrove 14y agoThanks for the kind words, Yehuda! We're also working on a Chrome app that will make the experience even better on Chromebooks, stay tuned! Also, if you need an invite, let us know: hello (at) nitrous (dot) io
- stickhandle 14y agoA Chrome app is a great idea. What kind of timeline? Weeks, months, seasons - away?
- iamclovin 14y agodon't want to put a date on it, but stay tuned :)