On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:46 AM, jtd <[email protected]> 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 >> <[email protected]> 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 -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
