Comments on: Foresight Linux Impressions

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:31:23 +0000

Thank you for this interesting article, which was published here.

Greetings

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:02:52 +0000

@Eelco, Jake and Mo- I have tried VirtualBox. I won’t run the PUEL version, but only the OSE. With OSE, USB support is non-existant, and networking bridging is an absolute pain to setup. Maybe if VirtualBox started acting like a real VM solution, I’d use it, but right now, it’s far too immature to take serious.

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:40:33 +0000

I’ve been interested in trying out Foresight too but will try it out in a VM as you initially proposed you were going to do. And, as two others have already mentioned, give VirtualBox a try if you had problems with KVM. There is one tweak you have to make with regards to Ubuntu and VirtualBox to get USB support in Gutsy, but after that it is extremely easy to use.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:26:11 +0000

Have you tried innotek’s VirtualBox instead? The opensource version works great and it’s super easy to use.

By: Matt Mossholder

Matt Mossholder — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:32:21 +0000

While Debian/Ubuntu does not provide a ks.cfg file, there is a method to extract out the packages that were installed (as well as the settings for each). It is called preseeding, and seems to be more powerful than using kickstart files.

More detail here: https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/installation-guide/i386/appendix-preseed.html

By: Simone

Simone — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:29:13 +0000

I never had X issues. But I have to point that the update process is too slow….

By: Eelco

Eelco — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:13:25 +0000

Have you considered VirtualBox instead of KVM? I know, it is not Free, but apart from USB inside the VM, it works without problems for me on Gutsy. And it is free for personal use (they have a open source thingie too, but I was lazy)

By: Ken VanDine

Ken VanDine — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:40:28 +0000

Ah… a T61… we have some folks here in the office running Foresight on a T61. I think there are a couple of little things to tweak, but they are happy with it. Antonio (doniphon), our xorg maintainer, also has a T61. I would love to figure out why you had issues.