From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Diamond Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:53:53 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com> <87lhhx7f6s.fsf@gmail.com> <874mojtxx5.fsf@debian.uxu> <5f29e7cb-f178-4eb1-85c7-e2bbc90f2677@googlegroups.com> <878udrlmm7.fsf@debian.uxu> <3f684967-5d47-43d9-8ffb-275c129203a8@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429638926 12022 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2015 17:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:55:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 21 19:55:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YkcOG-0004Z9-Tb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:55:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkcOF-0003cC-TZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:55:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9197b154d54b916c21aa3b57845cff74"; logging-data="19459"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/4qrXBAjzTRJsRIi0Afj+u" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3IDlTkaQWsmYTxoCAVWroGMbjSk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211632 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103913 Archived-At: On 2015-04-19 at 20:35 ADT, Bob Proulx 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