Comments on: Land of DTrace

By: Myk Melez

Myk Melez — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:50:09 +0000

If I didn’t have to test stuff on Mac OS X sometimes, I’d still have my trusty ThinkPad T42 (or have replaced it with a newer ThinkPad).

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:43:34 +0000

You probably still need to recompile freetype on solaris to enable the legally-troublesome hinting options.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:01:29 +0000

Hi Rob,

Check out the Thinkpad series. I’ve run Linux on Toshiba, IBM and Dell laptops over the years, the IBM usually had better support & stability, before you buy, check out other people’s experiences.

Check out the http://www.vgcomputing.com.au website, for linux compatibility I’ve purchased computers from this fellow in the past, well worth the visit.

You might even consider running Solaris on a laptop, if you do, make sure the one you get is certified http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/search.jsp also investigate sound and video driver support (make sure you get the nvidia video card). Note that you’ll need to download components from opensolaris to get acpi support, check out other peoples experiences and ask on the opensolaris website if interested. Solaris is generally not as well supported as Linux on a laptop. Although you can set up a linux zone and run all your linux apps too.

By: tecosystems » links for 2007-09-10

tecosystems » links for 2007-09-10 — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:25:00 +0000

[...] Rob Sayre’s Mozilla Blog » Blog Archive » Land of DTrace “I deleted the Ubuntu partition that I had. Now I’m using Solaris. It’s much nicer to use, except for the fonts. I don’t think I can work on Mozilla without DTrace ever again. Too useful.” – the DTrace demo w/ Spidermonkey is really impressive (tags: dtrace opensolaris opensource solaris mozilla robertsayre osx) [...]

By: stephen o'grady

stephen o'grady — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:40:04 +0000

can’t speak to the 15 inch models, but the 12 inch X40 works perfectly out of the box with Ubuntu. suspend, the Thinkpad keys, bluetooth, wifi, everything. i’ve even got a Sierra Wireless HSDPA card running on it perfectly.

the X60s, on the other hand, does not work similarly well. suspend is flaky, and the madwifi drivers for the Atheros card were not nearly as solid as the Intel IPW 2200’s.

By: dave

dave — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:35:02 +0000

You talk about two different things in your post and you don’t explicityl link them so I’m wondering if you’re aware that DTrace is included in the new version of Mac OS X with a fancy GUI:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/developer/xray.html