<div dir="ltr">Hi Mark,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Mark Foster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blakjak@blakjak.net" target="_blank">blakjak@blakjak.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 11/01/2016 3:40 p.m., Anthony Towns wrote:<br>
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On 10/01/2016 17:29, Anthony Towns wrote:<br>
* My work laptop is a Mac which runs OSX natively and a mixture of FOSS and<br>
proprietary software to do various day to day duties on top<br>
** VMs of Ubuntu for desktop Linux needs and devstack tweaking<br>
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What desktop Linux needs do you have that you can't (or prefer not to)<br>
run natively on OS X? I got the impression most free things were available<br>
for OS X, though the updaters weren't as convenient as Debian or Fedora.<br>
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Are we seriously at the stage where we're challenging people who're putting their hands up to take a not-insigificant role in LA, because they use a mixed-software-stack for a variety of reasons?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>I know both AJ and Hugh, and they also know each other. Both are pretty much "Linux-greybeards", if such a term exists, as they've been around the place prior to linux kernel 0.99 :-)</div><div><br></div><div>I don't think AJ was having a go at Hugh for using a mixed stack, but rather questioning why he needed to. As in "I'm genuinely interested as to why you need to do this thing". I thought it was an inquiry, not an inquisition. At least I read it that way.<br></div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
I've been a big contributor to the Linux world in NZ for >15 years, but I spend an awful lot of time in Linux (and infact, for various reasons, I don't have a 'current' Linux workstation right now, though I still have several servers). Do I need to resign from Linux Australia now? Or at that level am I only worthy of being a 'member'?<br>
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I officially joined LA in order to serve on the core team for LCA2015 (Auckland); I volunteered a hellovalot of my time and energy into what I believe was a very successful LCA.<br>
I did an awful lot of the planning work for LCA on my (work COE issue) Windows workstation, and using my (work COE issue) Apple iPhone.<br>
I continue to administer the NZ Linux Users Group and participate in groups such as the New Zealand Open Source Society on predominantly Windows machines.<br>
None of these things seemed to matter to the outcome of the event.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>And it was a great event :)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
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Music applications, particularly virtual instruments are very compute and<br>
memory intensive so virtualisation (OSX under Linux as it would have been)<br>
is a non-starter.<br>
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Hmm, compute-intensive seems surprising; I would've thought the constraint<br>
was latency for device access (speakers, mic, midi etc). Isn't compute<br>
under VM basically just a few percent worse than native these days? (Well,<br>
running OS X under a VM seems to be frowned upon by Apple too from what<br>
I can tell)<br>
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Play the ball, not the man. The guy seems to have excellent pedigree in terms of the Linux and Open Source worlds and has accepted nomination into a challenging and time-consuming volunteer role.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>AJ has been on the LCA council/committee for 5 years and also has been involved in the organisation of many LCAs in various capacities. He has also been a significant player in many open-source projects, distributions, and worked in open-source roles in various companies. Like Hugh, AJ has an excellent pedigree in the FOSS world.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Standing for office is so, so much more than splitting hairs and interrogating over details like this.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think that was the intent. I think you've read intention into the email that was not intended.</div><div><br></div><div>Shar and Compress,</div><div><br></div><div>Michael...</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimer: Hugh is a work colleague.</div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Michael Davies <a href="mailto:michael@the-davies.net" target="_blank">michael@the-davies.net</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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