Granted, I was paraphrasing from memory. Here are the actual words: Mark: > The shear number of tools available on Linux is just simply amazing. > Screen, ssh, PAM, qemu, libvirt, virt-manager, X, and yes, I said it, > The X Window Manager.
Richard: > QEMU: OS X doesn't ship with it but it's installable via MacPorts. Mark: > QEMU and KVM are standard in most main stream Linux distros. This blows > every other system out of the water. In debian, it is merely "apt-get > install ..." The networking with QEMU and support packages is better than > most proprietary systems on Windows and Mac. Richard: > sudo port install qemu > > This works on the *BSDs and on OS X after installing MacPorts. Call me > blind but I don't see how "sudo apt-get install qemu" blows "sudo port > install qemu" out of the water. If anything, the apt-get command requires > three more key strokes. Mark: > Not really supported by the qemu guys. How's the version updates? Richard: > Dunnow, I don't use it. Never saw the need While I can't speak for everyone, it sure came across to me that you dismissed Mark's experience, then acknowledged that you hadn't actually tried it yourself. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Richard Pieri <[email protected]>wrote: > John Abreau wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Paraphrased: I made up stuff that Rich P. didn't actually write and > phrased it to make it seem like he's a liar, an idiot, or both because he's > not completely on board with RMS's Free Software ideology. > > > -- > Rich P. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
