Xen screenshots

   I was looking at the Xen site today, and it struck me how
lousy NetBSD 
looks in the (few) screenshots available.  The only image
showing it has 
it in a quarter of the screen, along with three more or less
flashy 
Linux distros, with NetBSD being represented by a text only
console 
login.

   And that image is on Wikipedia too, with the info page
mentioning that 
"This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer software
*for Linux*".

   Hubert Feyrer's screenshot on netbsd.org/gallery is a
little better 
(from our viewpoint), but not by much.  (Sorry.)


So here's my suggestion:


   It would seem that this is a perfect opportunity to show
off what we can 
do.  It would be nice to see a domain0 running on NetBSD,
with perhaps 
Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and something else in the screenshot.
 Preferably 
each OS doing more than displaying the output of
"uname -a"...

   And for extra credit, try to show off the Linux
emulation.  I run Opera 
for Linux, for example.  Just showing its
"about" page would do the trick. 
And the Linux installation might as well be running
something inside qemu. 
Go crazy.  Have some nested Plan9 desktops too.


  (And remember that you can't make it much larger than,
say, 1024x768 if 
you want people to actually look at it.)


MAgnus

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Magnus Eriksson wrote:
>  I was looking at the Xen site today, and it struck me
how lousy NetBSD 
> looks in the (few) screenshots available.  The only
image showing it has it 
> in a quarter of the screen, along with three more or
less flashy Linux 
> distros, with NetBSD being represented by a text only
console login.
>
>  And that image is on Wikipedia too, with the info page
mentioning that 
> "This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer
software *for Linux*".

Thanks for your feedback. Feel free to ake a better screen
shot and send 
it to "the Xen site" (wherever that is, exactly)
and Wikipedia. Feel free 
to send a copy to wwwNetBSD.org, and we'll see into hooking it
into the 
Xen/screenshots pages.

Thanks a lot!


   - Hubert

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Thanks for your feedback. Feel free to ake a better
screen shot and send it 
> to "the Xen site" (wherever that is,
exactly) and Wikipedia. Feel free to 
> send a copy to wwwNetBSD.org, and we'll see into hooking it
into the 
> Xen/screenshots pages.

P.S.:
There seem to be some more sexy screenshots at 
http://xen-forum
.net/nbsdxeninf.html, maybe you want to use those two.


  - Hubert

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Magnus Eriksson wrote:
>  I was looking at the Xen site today, and it struck me
how lousy NetBSD 
> looks in the (few) screenshots available.  The only
image showing it has it 
> in a quarter of the screen, along with three more or
less flashy Linux 
> distros, with NetBSD being represented by a text only
console login.
>
>  And that image is on Wikipedia too, with the info page
mentioning that 
> "This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer
software *for Linux*".

Thanks for your feedback. Feel free to ake a better screen
shot and send 
it to "the Xen site" (wherever that is, exactly)
and Wikipedia. Feel free 
to send a copy to wwwNetBSD.org, and we'll see into hooking it
into the 
Xen/screenshots pages.

Thanks a lot!


   - Hubert

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Thanks for your feedback. Feel free to ake a better
screen shot and send it 
> to "the Xen site" (wherever that is,
exactly) and Wikipedia. Feel free to 
> send a copy to wwwNetBSD.org, and we'll see into hooking it
into the 
> Xen/screenshots pages.

P.S.:
There seem to be some more sexy screenshots at 
http://xen-forum
.net/nbsdxeninf.html, maybe you want to use those two.


  - Hubert

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

>> Thanks for your feedback. Feel free to ake a better
screen shot and send it 
>> to "the Xen site" (wherever that is,
exactly)

  (http:
//www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ -- the
"official home 
page" according to Wikipedia, so I thought it would go
without saying)


   And thank you for your "form letter style"
reply.  


   Actually, the reason for posting to port-xen and not only
-advocacy were 
so that someone that is actually running Xen could make
those screenshots. 
I don't.


> P.S.:
> There seem to be some more sexy screenshots at 
> http://xen-forum
.net/nbsdxeninf.html, maybe you want to use those two.

   Hmm, I don't know.  Just taking a quick look, I can't
really tell Xen is 
involved at all.  Yes, of course I know it is, it's just
not very obvious. 
So it would seem a poor choice for something like
Wikipedia...


MAgnus

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Magnus Eriksson wrote:
>  Hmm, I don't know.  Just taking a quick look, I
can't really tell Xen is 
> involved at all.  Yes, of course I know it is, it's
just not very obvious. So 
> it would seem a poor choice for something like
Wikipedia...

I guess this boils down to the question "how DO you
show off Xen"?


  - Hubert

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

>> Thanks for your feedback. Feel free to ake a better
screen shot and send it 
>> to "the Xen site" (wherever that is,
exactly)

  (http:
//www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ -- the
"official home 
page" according to Wikipedia, so I thought it would go
without saying)


   And thank you for your "form letter style"
reply.  


   Actually, the reason for posting to port-xen and not only
-advocacy were 
so that someone that is actually running Xen could make
those screenshots. 
I don't.


> P.S.:
> There seem to be some more sexy screenshots at 
> http://xen-forum
.net/nbsdxeninf.html, maybe you want to use those two.

   Hmm, I don't know.  Just taking a quick look, I can't
really tell Xen is 
involved at all.  Yes, of course I know it is, it's just
not very obvious. 
So it would seem a poor choice for something like
Wikipedia...


MAgnus