These are my links for July 13th through July 19th:
- Virtual Machine Manager – Rob pointed out that my Fedora machine has a nice virtualisation option available, and so it does. UI is perhaps not quite as polished as VirtualBox but the actual virtualisation feels better. I've heard reports that Poky doesn't play well on a VirtualBox virtualised host but I've done some builds in a VMM host and it works well so far…
- App Inventor for Android – "…visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior." – Awesome, a Scratch-like environment for Android.
- Hello world in Scheme for Android – Quick how to, Scheme programs for your Android device with Kawa Scheme
I wrote about about why these posts are being generated here: Sharing Links.
My problems with Virtual Box and building Poky were I think due to cranking up the threads. If you keep the thread count low, maybe it works fine. But I had a Nehalem based desktop (4 cores, 8 hardware threads) running Windows with Virtual Box defined to have a large number of virtual processors. Then I cranked up the Poky threads and Make threads to get the machine breathing hard. Result: lots of weird errors.
But hey, this is exactly the kind of thing some people try want to do. I did it, right?