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Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

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post #94

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Why? Great products are worth paying for.

Nothing about the freedom of the software has to do with whether or not you compensate the authors for creating it. If you take free software and never consider paying its developer for making it, despite them providing you freedom, choice, and a degree of trust in the software you can not have with proprietary code, then you are the kind of person to blame for why proprietary software is so rampant today. For exampl…

As a practical matter, few people pay for open-source software. In theory, the two issues are orthogonal, but in reality, they are not.

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

#102
post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Great products are worth paying for.

Nothing about the freedom of the software has to do with whether or not you compensate the authors for creating it. If you take free software and never consider paying its developer for making it, despite them providing you freedom, choice, and a degree of trust in the software you can not have with proprietary code, then you are the kind of person to blame for why proprietary software is so rampant today. For exampl…

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Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

#104

Biggest problem with Boot2docker was volume mounting and file permissions, hope this happens soon. > Volume mounting for your code and data: volume data access works correctly, including file change notifications (on Mac inotify now works seamlessly inside containers for volume mounted directories). This enables edit/test cycles for “in container” development

This is one of the features mentioned in the announcement.

Yes I was quoting, but I didn't format the text well.

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

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post #18
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If I had a yearly quota on HN for upvotes, I'd use all of them on this. > Volume mounting for your code and data: volume data access works correctly, including file change notifications (on Mac inotify now works seamlessly inside containers for volume mounted directories). This enables edit/test cycles for “in container” development. This (filesystem notifications) was one of the major drawbacks for using Docker on M…

We'd love to get your feedback on the new filesystem engine in the Docker for Mac app. It's been a ton of work to get right, and there a few corner cases in the current beta that we're squashing, but overall things "just work" for my day-to-day Linux development on my Mac using the current beta. At this stage, pointing it to the weirdest and most wonderful filesystem stressers you can find is welcome. We'll leap on a…

What is the filesystem engine? Is it just something fancy on top of NFS, or something completely new?

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

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post #105
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We'd love to get your feedback on the new filesystem engine in the Docker for Mac app. It's been a ton of work to get right, and there a few corner cases in the current beta that we're squashing, but overall things "just work" for my day-to-day Linux development on my Mac using the current beta. At this stage, pointing it to the weirdest and most wonderful filesystem stressers you can find is welcome. We'll leap on a…

What is the filesystem engine? Is it just something fancy on top of NFS, or something completely new?

It's something new.

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

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If I had a yearly quota on HN for upvotes, I'd use all of them on this. > Volume mounting for your code and data: volume data access works correctly, including file change notifications (on Mac inotify now works seamlessly inside containers for volume mounted directories). This enables edit/test cycles for “in container” development. This (filesystem notifications) was one of the major drawbacks for using Docker on M…

In my comment I wanted to express the same, the whole Boot2docker solution seem too hacky for non Docker enthusiastic devs. I had hard time trying to convincing co-workers to use docker for development environment, mainly because filesystem, and the user experience. You have to really like docker to go thru all the setup. I did it but I can see why my coworkers didn't.

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

#110

Tried to sign up, but the enroll form at https://beta.docker.com/form is blank for me - it just says "Great! We just need a little more info:" but has no forms.

We're using Marketo to track all the signups and I get a blank screen too if I use ghostery and the like.

Would you mind trying again but allowing Marketo?

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