Easiest way to use new tools in old Linux environment

Re:Easiest way to use new tools in old Linux environment by olefoo on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @02:10PM (#660593)

It's a bit ghetto, but you could mount your home directory on the workstation via ssh from your laptop and then use it from your laptop when you need to use mercurial or whatever nifty toy.

Ubuntu puts this functionality under the 'Places' menu item.

//assuming you are even permitted to do that

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Re:Easiest way to use new tools in old Linux environment by h1bored on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @02:30PM (#660631)

I wish :-(

My laptop is the IT standard bastardized version of XP so I can run outlook. Though perhaps it'd be easier to crack it open, up the RAM, and run ubuntu in a VM on it..

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