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Re:Why I use old hardware by amiga-workbench on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:34AM (#18979024)
A lot of shops have large and swollen Linux VM's to run your database, web server and interpreter in for consistency with the production environment.

If I wasn't running on a Mac at work I could comfortably use containers without the overhead of another VM.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by fiddlerwoaroof on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:50AM (#18979194)
The new docker that uses the Mac’s builtin hypervisor works pretty well
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Re:Why I use old hardware by amiga-workbench on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:50AM (#18979198)
I didn't know about that, I'll give it a look over.
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Re:Why I use old hardware by beatgammit on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:57AM (#18979284)
You could always install Linux. I personally would hate running a VM regularly for my job. It just adds complexity without much benefit.
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Re:Why I use old hardware by 00deadbeef on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:09AM (#18979435)
The benefit is the VM can precisely match production, and every project you work on can have a different VM with a different set of software.
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Re:Why I use old hardware by amiga-workbench on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:03AM (#18979369)
It gets worse than that, I'm still on spinning rust, although I do have 21gig of RAM so I can keep my VM's running.

Looking forward to putting an inexpensive linux workstation together when this Mac eventually bites the dust.

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