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

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

Actually, I was paraphrasing, and combining statements across multiple
days, and not in the order that they were posted. As I recall, Richard
responded to claims that MacOS was lacking in several regards, including
QEMU, by claiming that MacOS worked fine, then later backed up his claim by
stating that he's never needed to use QEMU on Macintosh.




On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:32 PM, <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:

> > "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.
>
> Whom are you quoting?
>
> >
> >
> > 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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