"Rion D'Luz" <[email protected]> writes:
> Since Safari is Moz based, my expectations are not too anxious for Macs 
> (anyone know of safari4linux?),

Safari is WebKit based, an entirely different engine from Gecko/Mozilla,
and it does behave quite differently from Mozilla at times.

There are WebKit(/GTK) browsers for linux in development (see "midori"),
and Chrome is still being ported to MacOSX and Linux.  I'd love to see
at least the process-per-tab approach come to be in firefox so I could
run Pandora and Google Reader as isolated apps w/o interfering with the
rest of the wooly wild web.


> On another Note (no surprise), does anyone have info to offer regarding 
> creating an VirtualBox XP image
> that i can throw on a USBstick? All my VBimages are Linux; can XP even run 
> under VB (w/out vt-tech)?

Microsoft offers gratis "IE Application Compatibility" images in Virtual
PC format: 
http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/running-microsofts-ie-application-compatibility-images-virtualbox

VirtualBox (2.1.x) knows how to convert them; they run for me without
all that qemu-img convert crap (VBoxManage can do the conversion
directly), and without any of the mentioned BSOD crap, either,
thankfully.

Windows 7 beta was (?) available for a gratis download for testing
purposes, which included IE8 RC2; I think the though the beta window
might be closed, now, though.  Since I've been using that, IE8 has
passed "candidate" status and has been fully released, and Windows7 is
nearing RC/gold-master itself, so that might no longer be an option.

In any case, both run totally fine as guests on my
Gentoo/VirtualBox-2.1.4 host.  I had success with VirtualBox-1.6.6 for
those VMs, too … ironically, it was my development *Gentoo* guest that
kernel panic'ed during boot under vbox-1.6 that works fine under
vbox-2.1.4.  Anyways, vbox-2 is way better than 1.6.


> Finally, thanks to all who came to the Alchemist for jolly good time! 

Totally! :)

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