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Why the Vinyards?​

Linux development, with the preferable Olde English spelling, amongst the vineyards

Alex Genovese lives in a wine growing region of Italy, in a castled village dating from the 1300's

"qqX is something to work on when it's too hot or it's raining and I can't be outside"

1533 (1651 pub.), Henry Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia:

therefore they who are more religiously and holily instructed, neither set a tree nor plant their vinyard, nor undertake any mean work without divine invocation

Alex Genovese

Why Bash?​

Keeping it Simple​

The qqX coding is clear and annotated sufficiently for newcomers to find their feet

  • qqX uses a more modern interpretation of Bash than that used in Quickemu

  • but anything in quickemu can still be easily modded, shaped and improved

QEMU / KVM does all the heavy lifting

  • Much easier for community contributions

  • Much easier to edit and easy to fix

... and Straightforward​

qqX follows quickemu's pattern of using human orientated configuration files

  • none of the complexities of only having machine readable configurations, as with LibVirt

Requires no special setup as do languages such as Rust, C or Vala

Bash is automatically there on almost every Linux system, directly on the command line.

  • easily integrates with the Linux core utilities and sub-system

  • is more performant than basic Posix Shell

Improving your knowledge of Bash is always time well spent

  • Most users already know or can understand at least a little of it.

why 'X' ?​

Traditionally Linux has used the X window system from X.org and classically the 'Xterm' command line interface.

Technically speaking, qqX runs in a 'terminal emulator' and can also run with Wayland display systems as well as with 'X'