Uh oh… this gets me really nervous…

At work, some bean counters have decided that now that we bought some big Linux company for $$$, any other \”brand\” should be forbidden. Kind of Mafia-style marketing effort IMHO. But ok, you don\’t reach these people, they always have higher powers and can decide whatever they want, simply ignoring the consequences for the workforce. So I thought ok, let\’s have a look. Downloaded the image, put it onto a USB stick (you\’ll later have to boot from that to install), and took it home over the weekend to have a look without destroying my work machine which I need on a daily basis…

… but at home I ran into another problem: my USB stick booted just fine, however after looking at the first few screens that seemed too dangerous as well – so I decided to have a look inside a VM…

… turns out that this is a problem as well. With Oracle\’s (formerly: Sun\’s) Virtualbox, you first have to create a vmdk file, and start/run Virtualbox as root (how silly/dangerous is that? Shaking my head in disbelief…). Ok, looking at the first few screens again, now I dared to go one further. But that one, again, was where I stopped:

Unbelievable. And guys who make something like this want to tell me what\’s dangerous, and what\’s not?

No further comment – as that could cost my job… but I\’m still shaking my head – and I\’m very afraid at what will happen at work, even with a backup of my /home

You hear me taking a deep breath…