awesomely awesome

By basd on Apr 30, 2009 | In linux, icewm, cloud computing

I will have far to go to implement eyeOS and integrate it into my existing paradigm. But so far, it's great!

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Here's the thing: As mentioned earlier in this blog, I've been working with an Arch/Chakra install on a really old and underpowered computer.

eyeOS sort of skirts all the issues. Since it runs in the browser -- and the browser runs just fine -- some speed and stability issues are solved for me. (So, I'm thinkin' 'netbook'.)

To bring y'all up to date on my Arch project, here's the status:

As mentioned previously, I'm running arch linux on a PIII with only 256 meg. ram. That's an under-powered test bed, but it's what I had lying around unused.

My Chakra install is running okay, but I think I mentioned some "memory leak" issues. Whether it's memory leaks or some other problem, after awhile, KDE4 gets pretty unresponsive and the processor runs at 100% constantly till I log out and re-log in.

Sooo...I put IceWM on the computer. Interestingly (because KDE3 did not get added to the kdm login menu) IceWM is added to the login menu and so I can easily choose it.

Elsewhere, I've talked about various hybrid desktops utilizing IceWM, and at the moment I'm just loading KDE 3 kicker, so as to pick up the KDE start menu and apps; and to run Kima.

But, I also wanted desktop widgets -- and guess what? The google desktop widgets (QT4 version) work just fine, without taking up too much cpu.

Now, I have not figured out which Firefox addon conflicts with eyeDocs, so I needed a way to run Firefox with two separate profiles simultaneously. Because, although I have desktop icons that will launch Firefox in different profiles, once Firefox is open, the new links launch in the open browser.

But ... I then found if I add "-no-remote" to the end of the application string in the .desktop file, a separate session will open in the profile specified.

This is a lot of firepower on a very old and underpowered machine. Very cool!

(BTW eyeDocs looks from the interface to be very much like Xinha. Which is not a bad thing, but lacks some formatting options, such as footers and headers (other than the standard ones that print through the browser interface.)