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balac
on Sept 28, 2015
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Icebergs.io Brings Linux Desktop to the Browser
If you are porting something to linux surely you will want to test it on a real VM at least? Those are pretty trivial to set up and are free...
fit2rule
on Sept 28, 2015
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This is a real VM. The likelihood that if it runs on here, it'll run on a 'real Ubuntu instance' is quite high.
0x4a42
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But why one would pay for a VM as a SAS when you can install one for free in a just a few minutes on your own machine?
fit2rule
on Sept 28, 2015
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Maybe your machine isn't good enough for the VM? Lots of folks have low-budget, slow laptops that could still nevertheless benefit from having access to a decent Linux workstation environment.
crististm
on Sept 28, 2015
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So you suggest this is a good use-case because you can run Linux in a recent Firefox on an old machine better than you can run it natively?!
Have you run a recent Firefox on an old machine for that matter?
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