[Discuss] os x = poop?

[Eric Chadbourne]

Are you the John Hall who brought Linus to the states back in the day?  If yes, you are fascinating and if we ever bump into each other I would love to buy you a beer and listen to stories.

You don’t have to hack around anymore to get netflix working on gnu/linux.  At least it worked for me a couple of months ago before I purchased this lovely piece of limited desk jewelry.

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Eric Chadbourne


> On Feb 12, 2015, at 12:47 PM, John Hall <johnhall2.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Dr. Anthony Gabrielson <
> agabrielson1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> ​​
> 
> I do think Docker would make a good replacement/supplement for package
>> management - it is a completely self contained instance that just shares a
>> kernel.
> 
> ​Docker shares a kernel on linux distros. On Mac and windows it runs at
> least one kernel in virtualbox.
> I believe you'll be better served running your own virtual box configured
> with a full desktop linux distro on top of MacOS and then use it's package
> manager.
> 
> In general my experience is that my Mac Mini is great for times when I need
> to provide my parents techsupport and for using my outdated scanner that
> has no linux or windows 8.1 drivers.
> I also use it on another monitor to watch netflix which annoyingly still
> does not work on linux with out hacks and takes needless cycles on linux.
> My MacOS survival guide:
> 
>   1. MacOS is an operating system for the General Public even more so than
>   Windows which bridges over business, and tech.
>   2. Mac is good for some stuff and is worth keeping actively running with
>   a multi core processor, so keep it around, but
>   3. *Install VB and a Linux distro and be happy, if you don't have
>   another machine handy next to it.*
>   4. Do not try to get buy with any of  the aggravating MacOS oss distros.
>   You will just be annoyed. Suplement the linux distro as you please.
>   5. Use docker in the linux distro to manage services you want to keep
>   separate from each other.
>   6. Consider using vagrant for managing development environments.
> 
> I'm a computer enthusiast and really enjoy following MacOS, and Windows
> along with Linux.
> I don't mean to malign mac.  Also for things like XCode keep in mind that
> Mac is trying hard to drive demand and development for their latest
> systems!
> Check out the specs on the newest cores in Macbook pros. They dust my
> little ol' mini.
> 
> Cheers,
> John Hall
> Web Application Developer
> http://openelevate.com/jlhall/resume.html
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