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spl020408yWhats their reason? Cant you have a Linux machine and run windows in a VM or vice versa?
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The place where my brother works is a lot like this, except they don't even use their actual machine. Most of them have to use a VM that's been prefabricated.
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spl020408yThis all sounds a bit restrictive for development. No VM's, constrained machine etc. So most devs have their own box (laptop + 3g or something) to play with, off the official network?
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LMCodes1878y@h3ll I could get behind it if you were the NSA or something. But then I imagine they'd have a decent enough administration team to allow Linux machines on the network.
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c3ypt1c96548yrun it within a VM if you have install permissions. if not, just use USB live Linux to hack it and change yourself to the admin of the machine....
When you ask for a Linux machine and the PM tells you that you can only use Windows and whisper in your ear : you can still use Cygwin ...
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