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:

Uh oh… no thanks ma’am, I still need my machine!

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…