Here's another question: what fraction of all of the open source applications out there have been ported to run on a Mac under Linux? If there's quite a few that have not, then such a scheme would require either (1) porting to Mac Linux--and if you have to port, why not go Darwin native? (2) i386 emulation in the VM--which would make things even slower.
If fink were a paid effort, the simultaneous update issue wouldn't happen: all of the hardworking fink developers could give up their current jobs and be handsomely paid to create a new binary distro that is all built and tested before the next OS version is out :-) . -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Chris Devers wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joel Hacker wrote: > > > So, would you mind telling me how it is that making a virtual machine to > > run open-source software ISN'T bringing open source software to OS X? > > Who actually cares if it's Unix or Linux, all the tools are practically > > the same? Do you have an actual coherent argument against this idea, or > > do you simply enjoy insulting people? > > Ok ok guys, chill out. > > The point he was making is that, if you see Unix as let's say "simply a > toolkit", then Fink's job is to port that toolkit to Darwin -- and they've > done a good job of it. Wedging a virtual machine between the tools and the > underlying system doesn't make much sense, because it's faster & easier to > just let everything run natively. > > It isn't clear how planting a virtual machine version of the Linux kernel > above Darwin and below the Linux/Unix/BSD/POSIX toolkit that already runs > natively on Darwin is going to help anything. You see? > > > -- > Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users