On 23 Nov 2007, at 16:25, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:

>  You mean 11/28 ?

Yup.

>  It's 11AM here and I can make it.
>  Since it is work hour, I may walk away from time to time during the  
> meeting.

Would later or earlier be easier for you?

>  I am going to get a new macbook,
>  which will make it easier for me to work on Etoile.

Good news.

>  I can polish some small stuffs here and there.
>  To me, most important thing is CoreObject + EtoileUI for FOSDEM.

Completely agree.

>  Anyone has opinions on VMware Fusion or Parallel for development
> (probably with FreeBSD) ?
>  I used VirtualPC before and it is slow on harddisk-intensive task,
> like compiling.
>  I wonder whether it is improved in VMware Fusion or Parallel.
>  I really don't like to dual-boot again.

I currently use a separate machine (Thinkpad R31) for Étoilé  
development.  I have a habit of doing things that kill X periodically,  
so working over SSH is convenient.  I could probably do the same thing  
with a VM, but currently none of them have good support for graphics  
hardware which makes things like the composite extension very slow  
(and Apple's X11 doesn't support Composite or Render so I can't use it  
for remote access although apparently Xephyr now runs on OS X so that  
might be an option).

I tried using Parallels but I found regular kernel panics to be  
somewhat distracting.  Apparently this was caused by their  
misunderstanding how IPIs worked.  They claim it's fixed now, but I'm  
not running any ring-0 code written by people who don't RTFM before  
releasing again.  I've heard good things about VirtualBox, which has  
the advantage of being free (and Free for a slightly limited version).

David
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