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?
>
>
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