From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: official Emacs Docker image Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:25:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <831tbxn5id.fsf@gnu.org> <87oaf1bvsb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87mvukq7gd.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <877fcyg5ah.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87h9c0b6bd.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878txa9zvx.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1483208749 1312 195.159.176.226 (31 Dec 2016 18:25:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 18:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 31 19:25:45 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cNOLf-0007zR-6k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 19:25:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45088 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cNOLj-0005Bp-Vu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:25:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cNOLc-0005Bg-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:25:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cNOLW-0005nr-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:25:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cNOLV-0005mu-A4; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:25:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cNOLU-0004Mu-NU; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:25:32 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:08:50 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:211036 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > I see how it makes sense to use this on Windows. But it seems absurd to use > > this on GNU/Linux. Why does anyone do that? > On GNU/Linux systems, it runs the image in a low-cost container, providing > better process separation than chroot, while also allowing you to use > alternative kernel versions, or a different distro (for example, running > something built for CentOS on a Debian box). I guess that makes sense for special circumstances. Anyway, it does no wrong to anyone. So please support it if you want to. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.