From: Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond@deletethis.AcadiaU.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:53:53 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnmjd3lh.abd.Jim.Diamond@jdiamond-nb2.acadiau.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1136.1429490171.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On 2015-04-19 at 20:35 ADT, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Jim Diamond wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > VirtualBox on GNU/Linux is not very good. It was declared
>> > unsupportable by the Linux kernel folks a while back.[1] I don't
>> > think that situation has changed.
>> > [1] http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk5Mw
>>
>> That is almost 5 years old. Don't you think it is a bit irrelevant to
>> the current year?
> As I said, "I don't think that situation has changed." My own
> experiences with it have not been great either.
Sorry to hear that. Perhaps there is something peculiar about your
system or your usage.
> If you have other experiences with it to report then that is great. I
> would much rather hear that things are working wonderfully rather than
> that things are in a sorry state.
>> FWIW I use virtualbox (Linux host, mostly Linux guests) regularly and
>> haven't seen any problems I can even tenuously connect to it.
> That is wonderful. I will note this down as one person with good
> recent experiences with it. :-)
Infinitely better than none, I suppose.
>> The mileage of people still living in 2011 may vary.
> There are a lot of moribund projects on the net. If they don't get
> care, love, and attention then they stay that way and a few years
> means nothing. Adding years does not magically fix things. Adding
> care and effort fixes things through the sweat of the brow. Years
> without effort means nothing.
Are you somehow implying that virtualbox is not actively being
maintained? Perhaps if you peruse
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
you will change your mind.
Jim
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-08 18:29 How to uninstall Emacs? Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-08 18:30 ` J. David Boyd
2015-04-08 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-08 21:15 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-09 19:54 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2015-04-11 13:11 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.243.1428527741.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-09 23:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-11 13:11 ` [solved] " Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-11 19:05 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-12 11:34 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-13 23:03 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-15 6:34 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.611.1428966213.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-13 23:23 ` [solved] " Emanuel Berg
2015-04-15 21:41 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-16 15:38 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-16 21:16 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.848.1429218983.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-16 22:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-17 2:46 ` Rusi
2015-04-18 20:39 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.1049.1429389591.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-19 21:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-19 23:29 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.1135.1429490170.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-20 1:40 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.830.1429198561.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-16 22:47 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.782.1429134342.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-16 1:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-16 3:58 ` Rusi
2015-04-16 22:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-17 3:00 ` Rusi
2015-04-18 20:05 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.1047.1429387523.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-19 11:59 ` Jim Diamond
2015-04-19 23:35 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-20 7:46 ` Alexis
[not found] ` <mailman.1136.1429490171.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-21 17:53 ` Jim Diamond [this message]
2015-04-18 21:08 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-18 22:27 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-18 22:59 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.504.1428838317.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-12 14:36 ` [solved] " Rusi
2015-04-12 17:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-12 18:50 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-12 16:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-12 18:53 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.482.1428779144.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-12 0:01 ` Emanuel Berg
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