Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels • Hacker News Board

Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels

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Post by sodosopa » Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 2:25 AM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #137

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I'm kinda shocked they both exist. Both were good products back in the day, but in 2018? Come on.

What do you base this on? Is it that neither has released a front-end javascript framework or an in-house container orchestration tool as open-source (that I know of)? Or is there some other hipness criterium that they failed to meet?

Nah, I'm old or at least in tech years I'm old. I've worked with projects before containerization I have been a former user of both products. I didn't imagine Corel had the capital to move out of bargain-bins.

Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels

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Post by tracker1 » Tue, Dec 25, 2018, 9:01 PM UTC

SyneRyder wrote: post #126

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I would give VMWare a test on the Windows Side, it was always the best option from my own experience in Linux and Windows. That said, I mostly don't notice too much these days and mostly use Docker for (windows|mac) for anything Linux I'm working on in development. The only issue is anything that is a "shared volume" between the host and native will be very slow as it's copying actions in/out of the VM. Staying all i…

Yep, I'm 100% GUI. I use Parallels to test how my Win32 based apps work on different versions of Windows. I'm also testing against different Photoshop plug-in compatible graphics programs, so its useful to be able to restore to a clean snapshot taken just after installing Corel Paint Shop Pro, for instance. Everything in Parallels has been running at near native speed lately. On the Mac I was also using Parallels to…

There's ways around the Mac client limitations, though I really wish Apple would just give us a decent power user option already. I almost wish they'd sell a "Developer Kit" which would be an apple branded mobo with an Apple bios with install media. Then you could stick any compatible intel cpu, compatible gpu, and diy it... maybe mobo + case as a barebones... even if it was $500-600 for the barebones, I and many others would still pay that much vs. hackintosh route.

Then they'd just need to release maybe 1-2 motherboards every 12-18 months. Say a full ATX and an ITX variant.

Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels

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Post by tracker1 » Tue, Dec 25, 2018, 9:05 PM UTC

starik36 wrote: post #139

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I would give VMWare a test on the Windows Side, it was always the best option from my own experience in Linux and Windows. That said, I mostly don't notice too much these days and mostly use Docker for (windows|mac) for anything Linux I'm working on in development. The only issue is anything that is a "shared volume" between the host and native will be very slow as it's copying actions in/out of the VM. Staying all i…

One of the issues I found is that Docker and WMWare on Windows are incompatible. Dockers enables Hyper-V, which in turn prevents WMware from running.

Yeah... which sucks. That said, I really don't have much need for full VMs anymore. At work it all gets deployed in Windows. I try to keep everything I make cross platform and use docker to keep the services I'm not actively working on running local for other stuff. (really appreciate MS SQL Server docker image)

If I need a full VM would probably just use Hyper-V anyway as it's "good enough" ... on my home hackintosh, I haven't needed windows much at all... I use the kid's PC for the handful of projects that must have windows when I have to touch them.

Docker really gets me pretty much all I need in terms of linux support. Even building node projects for AWS Lambda. If I did gui development (other than browser ui/ux), I would probably be a bit more involved.

Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels

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Post by tracker1 » Tue, Dec 25, 2018, 9:09 PM UTC

SyneRyder wrote: post #129

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I loved PSP under Jasc, after I think XII after the Corel buyout, I gave up on the product... Paint.Net or Gimp (painfully) give me the little utility I usually need. I really do miss PSP, but I think 9 was the last really good version, and I don't have a key or media for it anymore. It sounds like it's gotten a little worse.

v9 was good, but I still prefer 7, the version just before JASC switched to .NET. v7 is lightning fast, and nearly 20 years later it's still the version I use first for Photoshop plugin development, because of its speed. From memory, v9 isn't compatible with Windows 10 (the installer won't work properly), so don't feel you're missing anything. Serif's Affinity Photo is giving PSP real competition, but Affinity is sti…

I haven't really looked at anything since XII... I do mostly development, and my image work is mostly relegated to slight color shifting and/or cropping/scaling. I do wish Paint.Net were a better cross platform option... I've used Pinta, but it's been kind of buggy and isn't nearly as well flushed out.

It's a shame that so many tried to re-bundle Paint.net in sleazy ways... though the ads on their own site are horrible, and I don't fault the main dev(s). I just would love to see Pinta or anything else become as easy to use. I may try to dig up PSP7 and see if I can find a key for it.