On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:46 AM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
starting a new thread relevant to the content
On Sunday 22 February 2009 06:07, Mohan Nayaka wrote:
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Nishit Dave stargazer.dave@gmail.com wrote: Enough, already! There's more to life than these petty issues, so please stop beating them to beyond death.
If you need to focus your energies on something, please try a more constructive approach, like discussing how to convince a corporate IT dept. To allow you to use Linux on your laptop (ours even considers
Is it allowed to install a closed-source ("legal") VM and put Linux in it?
Yes afaik. But why would one want to do that.
That was a question specific to the poster's (Nishit's corporate) setup. And it has some (limited, though) purpose - a long time back I was saddled with a laptop on which I had limited permissions and an old version of Windows to go with it. Call it an itch I wanted to scratch at that time, but I wanted to try my hand at Lisp. I have documented the workarounds I had to use (basically use Xemacs as a Lisp shell) on the GLug wiki.
If I had a full VM, I'd probably have a (slightly) smoother ride.
Regards, Mohan S N