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On Sunday, 13. Nov 2016, 22:21:33 +0100, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: |
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> > for a special job I need to do a piece of work in Microsofts |
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> > PowerShell, but I have no Windows machine running. I know |
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> > that there is a PowerShell for Linux because I have one |
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> > installed on a Ubuntu. Yet, I do not want to shut down my |
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> > Gentoo and boot Ubuntu every time when I have to try |
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> > something in PowerShell. I would like to install it on |
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> > Gentoo. |
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> This is the perfect use case for running containers on your development |
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> machine. Just set up lxc/lxd/docker on your gentoo machine and start up an |
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> ubuntu container in any of the runtimes. Works flawlessly, and you don't |
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> have to reboot or run a heavyweight VM. Lxc/lxd are more suitable for long |
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> running containers, docker would be great for containers that you spin up |
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> and tear down whenever you need. |
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> Give it a try. |
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I will consider this if I have to do with PowerShell for a |
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longer time. |
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Thanks for the hint! |
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Bertram |
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Bertram Scharpf |
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Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany |
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http://www.bertram-scharpf.de |