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. — Eric Chadbourne > On Feb 12, 2015, at 12:47 PM, John Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Dr. Anthony Gabrielson < > [email protected]> 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 to provide my parents techsupport and for using my outdated scanner that 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 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
