after watching andrey run plan9 in parallels and seeing the drawterm
windows on x11, i'd have agreed with you, but i must say it feels a lot
less bad when the "parasite" is full-screen and the "host" programs like
firefox are in a smaller rio window that you can kill or hide at will.
the firefox i'm writing this in is running full-screen (f11) on a 1000 by
1000 pixel vnc session and the illusion of having it native is pretty
damn good (for me anyway) at least until my drawterm hack crashes
and i start shouting untranslatable words (i hope it's better now that
i realized drawterm didn't have reentrant memimagedraw)
On 12/12/06, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't deny the utility of having Firefox (I'm writing this in a
> Firefox window), but even if Plan 9 could run Firefox, the next
> thing would be oh but it needs to be able to run these ten
> plugins, and so on and so on. Personally, I think you are going
> to be much happier running Plan 9 in some VM environment on
> Linux or Windows than putting in the effort for the other way around.
>
And a lot of times, at the end of the day, I feel that as a result of
wanting to run Plan 9 in a VM environment, even in Parallels, makes me
sad, and I'd almost rather use Inferno :-)
> Russ
>