Hello anyone who happens to read this,
I'd like to announce the release of a
VirtualBox virtual appliance.
This appliance was built from my current development environment and includes a full installation with the Cairo-backed compositor, muPDF viewer, and a stand-alone copy of the Lua interpreter.
The root user has a password `root`. There is a less-privileged account 'local', as well (password is 'local'). Windows can be moved by holding Alt and then clicking and dragging, and can be resized by doing the same with the middle button. The terminal is the best place to start, as you can launch all the other applications from it. The shell is simplistic, but provides variables, general quoting, and tab completion for command names. Most graphical applications can be exited by striking `q` (draw being one exception, use the X button in the upper right corner). `a` and `s` switch pages on the PDF viewer. The RPG Demo linked on the desktop is controlled with w/a/s/d (and exited with q). A terminal window can be closed by entering the 'exit' command.
Alternative boot modes are provided in the GRUB menu, including terminal-only mode and VGA terminal mode (all three boot modes use the same terminal running in different modes).
Please note that the OVA has VT-x/AMD-V enabled. If you don't have virtualization capabilities on your CPU, you can turn this off, but expect things to be slow due to the nature of the windowing environment's rendering path.
