<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Would the "Windows subsystem for Linux" be helpful? Article on the LInux Journal website, http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ubuntu-linux-and-bash-windows-program. I don't know R and I have never worked for the State of Alaska, though I know that Windows is the OS used by the state.<div><br /></div><div>PS to AKLUG Linux Journal has risen from the dead. I should send a separate message on that subject.</div><div> <div><br /></div><div>Steve Johnson<div>Anchorage, AK </div><div>steve.sjohnson@gci.net</div><div><br /></div><br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Mark Moon" <marktmoon@gmail.com></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div><aklug@aklug.org><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:35:58 -0900<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>[aklug] how to get Linux within Windows environment<br /><br /><br />
Hi All,<br /><br />
I'm a new employee of the State of Alaska, in a group within Department <br />
of Revenue that does investment stuff. I major tool for what I do is R <br />
combined with MySQL, which I've used in mostly Debian Linux for over 10 <br />
years. I need to figure out a way to get a Linux environment on which I <br />
can run R but in a way that should be minimally threatening to the IT <br />
folks, who are Windows enthusiasts. Any thoughts on ways of <br />
accommodating a Linux user like me within a group that almost <br />
exclusively uses Windows?<br /><br />
If they won't let me have a dedicated Linux box on-site, I'm not sure <br />
how threatening things like a VM or Windows subsystem for Linux would be <br />
to the IT staff? Any thoughts on approaches which might represent <br />
minimal risk from their perspective but still allow for me to run R and <br />
MySQL within a Linux environment? I'd like to get some sense for what <br />
may be more vs. less risky approaches, when trying to refute their <br />
reflexive, no, that's not what we do around here.<br /><br />
Many thanks! Feeling like a blind and deaf being at the moment....<br /><br />
Mark<br /><br /><br />
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Mark Moon<br />
805.657.9504<br /><br />
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