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I am trying to run windows software in fedora OS. There option of dual booting. But is there a way of creating a virtual environment, like we create environment for various python project, in which we can run .exe files and use microsoft office softwares (word, excel, etc.)? It's a weird question, but I searched the internet but not able to find it out.
yes, you can easily do so with the help of VmWare or VrtualBox, or any other similar applications.With a virtual machine application like VMware, you can run another operating system inside your current operating system.
It's running an OS inside another OS,also, you can store and run multiple OS (not simultaneously though) with the hep of these virtual machines.
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I've recently started my first job as a developer. They've assigned me a MacBook Pro, but they also set me up with a Linux desktop. I've set up my SSH keys to make a connection to the remote desktop and was instructed on how to clone repositories on remote desktop.
What is the purpose of having to SSH into a remote desktop to do development work? What are the main pros and cons?
Few of the reasons I can think of
Security : So that the production code which your company owns does not reside in your laptop.
Safety : The Linux OS you ssh'ed into is probably running on a server with all kinds of redundancy and replication configured.
Central build environment : Building custom code usually requires specific libraries and have specific dependencies. If you want to build and develope in your laptop, and just like you if all employees do, then those dependencies and libraries have to be installed in everyone's laptop OS.
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I want to convert my old PC into linux system and use it for Android code development. The resource is very limited (256 MG) memory. Currently, PC is running on XP SP3. What is the available OS for this PC? Currently, I am using a Win8 PC for android development. It seems that I need to download some codes from google web site and all instructions are linux command line based. I may use this old turd as a code repository so that I can study other people codes.
Any suggestions?
I would either recommend Debian if you want a stable distribution or if you need bleeding
edge software Arch Linux.
The wiki of Arch Linux is to my opinion better than the one of Ubuntu and Arch lets you do everything as you want it.
If you need to get started fast you can also go for Xubuntu (http:// xubuntu.org) as it is made for old hardware.
All three should run on your computer. So its just a matter of what you prefer.
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Experienced Windows programmer wants to learn Linux programming.
I have a Windows 7 machine. No Linux installed yet.
I have to learn from scratch including installation and then programming.
I have been programming in C/C++ for lots of years - nothing to learn here.
Just the Linux stuff.
Any good tutorials that match the situation?
How long should it take?
To get used to a linux environement, I think you should first get a live CD/USB of any Linux distribution that you want. By example you can follow this tutorial for Ubuntu or this one for Fedora.
Then, you can open a terminal and follow another tutorial like this one, to start programming on Linux.
Finally, if you need to install the Linux distribution, you should know that nowadays every good Linux distribution have a very easy installer directly available from their live CD/USB. Just put your basic configuration and click next !
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I am developing some application in Linux .This Linux is a virtual machine running in Windows, with the help of VMWare player. When my Linux application access the peripherals (say camera , network ..) , the access goes through the parent host machine's drivers (Here Windows)?
The idea is to know whether changing the Windows driver capabilities will affect my Linux application.
(The question is not about whether the data will flow through windows. It is about whether the corresponding windows driver get called - e.g for Linux Video, whether the corresponding Windows video driver will be invoked).
There is no other way for the virtual machine to control the peripherals but via the drivers. Please note that you may have some settings in the VM that add more restrictions then the settings of the external driver, but for sure you will never have less.
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I want to install a virtual linux system within my Windows7 operating system. I was thinking of using Cygwin. Any suggestions of other good/better softwares to use?
Thanks for the help
For running UNIX-y apps within Windows, Cygwin is pretty much the de-facto standard. The programs that are installable through Cygwin are essentially clones of the Linux ones, but compiled under Windows so that they run natively. Note though that you can't run a Linux program under Cygwin.
On the other hand if you want to run native Linux programs or a Linux distribution like Ubuntu, you'll need something like VirtualBox.
I cannot help but mention the amazing JavaScript PC emulator running Linux .. http://bellard.org/jslinux/ since you do not specify what you are trying to do with Linux, that may well answer your needs.