On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:28 AM, LuKreme wrote: > On 22 Dec 2011, at 23:25 , Chris Murphy wrote: >> are completely perplexed by the idea anyone would run to run linux. > > Who wouldn’t be?
> You have a fully functioning UNIX, why would you want to emulate a slightly > different UNIX? Unfortunately not everyone can have what they really want in one package. If I could it would be to paravirtualize XNU on top of linux so I could have real logical volume management, which Mac OS X does not have. And a safer and faster file system, which Mac OS X does not have. And NFSv4, which Mac OS X only just got in Lion even though it's been on linux since circa 2005/2006. And SELinux which Mac OS X does not have or an equivalent. Neither are UNIX. Mac OS X is POSIX compliant, and a handful of linux distros are. And running linux on Apple hardware, either as host or VM guest, is not emulation. The time to be asking for hardware that is a good citizen with other operating systems is in the present. Not when it has become old hardware, is effectively abandoned by Apple, but still has crap firmware that makes it difficult to impossible to use a modern, free operating system. Because Apple sure as sht is not going to update the firmware on a 2-3+ year old piece of hardware, even if there's a day when they finally produce a UEFI compliant computer. There's no incentive for them to do so, they already have your money and we're in a sense a captive audience. Sit down, shutup, and eat your cereal. And that's exactly what we do for the most part. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
