[Chicago] XO Sprint requirements?

[Ian Bicking]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
> What are the hardware requirements for the proposed XO Sprint?  I'm a Mac
> user and my only Linux laptop is a very long-in-the-tooth Dell Inspiron
> (450MHz?) running Ubuntu.

Intel Macs work fine with qemu, and probably VMWare.  I think VMWare is 
substantially faster.  Your laptop would be fine if you were running all 
the code natively, but under emulation it might be a bit slow to work 
with.  But I'm not sure -- I've only really used qemu (which is 
slowish), but VMWare is supposed to be quite a bit faster.  At native 
speeds a 450MHz computer should be fine.

Since we'd all be working in virtual environments, we don't necessarily 
need to be using personal machines.  Also pairing can work well in sprints.

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