Channel9 is completely broken under Linux

I know you guys probably don't care, but I thought I'd mention.

Let's rally together all the Linux users who made the incredibly ironic career decision to be Microsoft Developers and put this up to a vote


... jk, I had to give you grief.

Duncanma said:

We do care... I've tried a couple of times to run that Ubuntu install that sets it up as a block of hard drive space on windows... but for various unimportant reasons it has never completed... I should probably download the iso and do a VPC setup

I never could get Ubuntu running in VPC... Well, it loaded, but it froze up when I tried to load X.  glhf.

Duncanma said:

We do care... I've tried a couple of times to run that Ubuntu install that sets it up as a block of hard drive space on windows... but for various unimportant reasons it has never completed... I should probably download the iso and do a VPC setup

http://virtualbox.org will run Ubuntu from a Windows host.

SlackmasterK said:

Duncanma said:

*snip*

I never could get Ubuntu running in VPC... Well, it loaded, but it froze up when I tried to load X.  glhf.

Yeah, VPC isn't going to work for Ubuntu. Shame.

Rowan said:

Duncanma said:

*snip*

http://virtualbox.org will run Ubuntu from a Windows host.

This is weird: I just installed Virtual Box yesterday and was going to suggest that too! Today, I installed an OpenSuse image on it with Mono and MonoDevelop pre-configured. Unlike VMWare, Virtual Box does not require a reboot or virtual network drivers. And the performance is outstanding. And the OpenSuse Live CD you can download from www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html is ideal for testing this kind of stuff or for trying out Mono and MonoDevelop.

SlackmasterK said:

Duncanma said:

*snip*

I never could get Ubuntu running in VPC... Well, it loaded, but it froze up when I tried to load X.  glhf.

I got Ubuntu running in VPC, but it required changing the X config file to run in 16-bit color instead of 24-bit.  Something about the VPC video driver not supporting 24-bit.

I found these instructions on the web:
Once I was in there, I found the configuration file for the graphics card in /etc/X11. Sso type in cd /etc/X11, although I certainly hope even the most harden of MScentric people can figure that out . Once in there I opened up xorg.conf using pico (so type in pico xorg.conf - isn’t this fun?). Browse down to the screen section. Opps, looks like the defaultDepth property is 24, which VirtualPC doesn’t support. I changed this to 16 and hit CTRL-X to exit (saving when prompted of course). Typed in reboot and awaaaaaaay we go.

Duncanma said:

TommyCarlier said:

*snip*

Thanks folks, I'll get something set up soon ... as long as I can hit localhost, that is enough to test and fix for Linux ... I'm assuming people are talking about Gecko based browsers on Linux like Firefox?

The issues occur with both Firefox 3.x and Epiphany 2.22.x - you can't change pages in threads, edit posts.. among other things. Ubuntu will not easily install in MSVPC as others have said, you can try Virtualbox/VMWare/Qemu all should run Ubuntu without any issue.

(this is duncan, editing from Firefox 3.0 in Ubuntu)

Bass said:

Duncanma said:

*snip*

The issues occur with both Firefox 3.x and Epiphany 2.22.x - you can't change pages in threads, edit posts.. among other things. Ubuntu will not easily install in MSVPC as others have said, you can try Virtualbox/VMWare/Qemu all should run Ubuntu without any issue.

(this is duncan, editing from Firefox 3.0 in Ubuntu)

This sounds like the same issue as this, which (coincidentally) still isn't fixed.

Changing my user agent fixes the issue 100% of the time in Windows, and fixes it in Linux after a few page loads (there's got to be some caching going on there or something).

Duncanma said:

Duncanma said:

*snip*

replying from Ubuntu... Firefox 3.0 ... paging seems to work fine, as does the editor.

Only issue so far is that videos don't play, a fact that is not at all surprising

I'm not making it up. Wait like 10-20 seconds after the page loads and try it.

Duncanma said:

Duncanma said:

*snip*

replying from Ubuntu... Firefox 3.0 ... paging seems to work fine, as does the editor.

Only issue so far is that videos don't play, a fact that is not at all surprising

C-c-c-ombo breaker! (double post)

spivonious said:

SlackmasterK said:

*snip*

I got Ubuntu running in VPC, but it required changing the X config file to run in 16-bit color instead of 24-bit.  Something about the VPC video driver not supporting 24-bit.

I found these instructions on the web:
Once I was in there, I found the configuration file for the graphics card in /etc/X11. Sso type in cd /etc/X11, although I certainly hope even the most harden of MScentric people can figure that out . Once in there I opened up xorg.conf using pico (so type in pico xorg.conf - isn’t this fun?). Browse down to the screen section. Opps, looks like the defaultDepth property is 24, which VirtualPC doesn’t support. I changed this to 16 and hit CTRL-X to exit (saving when prompted of course). Typed in reboot and awaaaaaaay we go.

Yep; OOBE is Linux's worst enemy.  While it's great to be able to do stuff like edit config files to change your environment, no user should ever be required to. Awesome, guys. Just awesome.

Duncanma said:

Bass said:

*snip*

so I did it to quickly? or too slowly? I'll see what I can do... Epiphany was treated as an unsupported browser due to a broken Gecko check in my code, I've fixed that though and will be deploying the fix soon

I just discovered that when I click "Add" to submit a reply the page actually reloads and shows my post! Did you change something?

Using Minefield nightly.