[Discuss] Why use Linux? (back to original question)

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

"I've never needed to use QEMU on Macintosh. Therefore QEMU works great on
Macintosh, and anyone whose experience says differently is wrong."

Interesting logic.


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:58 AM, <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:

> > markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> >> SSH does not do this on Mac easily. Yes, if you configure the
> >> bastardized
> >> X server that you can get for Mac, you might be able to get it to work,
> >> but not with all programs.
> >
> > XQuartz is genuine X.Org. There's nothing bastardized about it, and all
> > X11 applications work over the SSH tunnel just like they do on Linux.
>
> The language mapping is typically difficult to get right and not all Mac
> programs will render to X11.
>
> >
> >
> >> Virtual Machines have changed the way we look at service environments.
> >
> > Doesn't change the fact that I've never needed to use QEMU on Macintosh
> > and when I needed to make it work on Linux it was an abject failure.
>
> I find that amazing and I question your truthfulness at this point. I have
> been using QEMU and KVM for years for web services, software development,
> and everything. Hell I have a Windows XP VM for turbotax.
>
> Lots of people use QEMU/KVM. Its networking sack is just as good as the
> commercial VMware package. With virt-manager, it really is point and
> click. Its great.
>
>
> >
> >
> >> I have, many times and I see a whole lot of HFS+ does not support sparse
> >> files, use UFS and a lot of UFS is no longer supported.
> >>
> >> I don't believe you.
> >
> > Then you're deliberately missing the point. OS X does sparse file
> systems.
>
> Please provide me a link because I know people who need this on a mac.
>
> HPF does not support sparse files and UFS has not been available for a
> couple years now. So, my colleagues are doing work on a Linux VMs on their
> Macs because we have been unable to get sparse files to work on the Mac.
> Even Apple support claims you can't do this.
>
> Please supply a link, it would be helpful.
>
>
>
> >
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