Mac's are overpriced. Comapnies buying computers for a bunch of employees don't buy Mac's unless there is a specific business reason (i.e. they need some mac only software).
<10% of Java devs on Mac's sounds right to me. So I don't blame Apple for deprecating Java. Especially since it On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you have mind-reading capabilities? :-) It's precisely one of the > > things that I'm experimenting with. > > Heh well it seems like an obvious "next step" in virtualization, and > what developer couldn't use the ability to fire up an arbitrary mix of > versioned OS images? :) > > > BTW, at this point, it would be nice to know if anybody else has tried > > the same, or knows something like that. > > I have only investigated it partly. Dual-booting Ubuntu + Windows, > telling VirtualBox to use the native Windows partition as image within > Ubuntu (only works with post-XP, since you require multiple hardware > profiles). However I don't like the fact that you have to designate a > master/host, although I suppose a very simple bootstrapping Linux > image could be used solely to launch a *real* desktop OS (Linux/OSX/ > Windows) - is that what you are attempting? > > My experiences are that graphics can be a bitch, but speed feels as > good as native when running from off an SSD. As you already mentioned > accessing a universal filesystem is a tricky quest for the lowest > common denominator. Though I had good success with the EXT2 IFS driver > for Windows running up against an ext3 data partition, except one has > to live with non-journaling. > > In any event, looking forward to reading your blog post. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
