This post has been on draft for almost a month now, but still accurate. So, following my post about our Brother 440CN MultiFunction Center [1], I'm sharing my latest little annoyances:
- My wife's shiny new ultra fast laptop, HP 6670EP, is working on Ubuntu Gutsy rather well. I've tested against Fedora and OpenSuse, but Ubuntu got the better hardware support. She's happy and it's fast enough for her needs. Still, the microphone doesn't work, but it's a Alsa (reported) bug, with a fix yet. - One of my machines, where I was using Windows XP for multiple testing purposes (OOo builds, my WM5 phone support, MSSQL database, VB.NET, etc) is now CentOS 5, for another testing platform, so I've shifted my attention to Virtual Machines again. After a brief road test of VirtualBox and VMWare, I went for VirtualBox as default platform for my development environments. The main reasons was for the speed of VBox comparable to the slowness of VMW "on my machine". Of course the seamless integration, USB support and shared folders dictate the choice, also SUN's acquisition of VBox should give an extra kick to the prodct, so I hope so. The problem so far has been with the network bridge options, since it's not quite easy to setup, but doable. - Windows in VBox; as I said, my wife is using Ubuntu and inside there's a Windows VM running, for her SamSung cell phone and Sony Vegas video support. The weirdest part, it's the HP Camera that works flawlessly on Ubuntu, it's detected by VBox and Windows catches the USB device, but there's no video on Windows, only a black square where it should be image. [1] - http://lists.paradigma.pt/pipermail/tce/2008-February/000197.html -- //VD _______________________________________________ tce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.paradigma.pt/mailman/listinfo/tce
