Re: emacs + org-mode in virtual machine/docker/...

[Dan Pomohaci <dan.pomohaci@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I made a docker image dpom/godevem 
(https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/dpom/godevem) for golang 
development with emacs.
It is use by my golang course students and
it runs on any platform that has installed docker engine.

Best regards,
Dan

On 22.05.2020 00:28, briangpowell . wrote:
 > Oh if you're talking about students that use a combo of Mac & Windows &
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 > Suggest VirtualBox --its free and can be installed and ported to each
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 > But VirtualBox is based largely on Qemu; and for students, I highly
 > recommend they become adept at running and using Qemu
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 > I've booted and run many different operating system guest systems using
 > Qemu--even an OS written entirely in Assembler
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 > Believe it would be loads of fun for students to load and run many
 > different operating systems with Qemu or distributions of Linux or any
 > OS on the fly
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 > But back to our original focus: Running Emacs Org-Mode on a Virtual
 > Machine that is extremely portable--you can do this with Qemu--you can
 > make your own Linux distro with Emacs Org-mode, make an ISO, a .iso file
 > and boot and run it with Qemu
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 > You can put it all on a USB key and run it on any machine--and then edit
 > the .iso and add software later if you like
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 > But enough about Qemu for student education etc.
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 > * Install VirtualBox {on all 2 operating systems
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 > * Make an virtual machine {Linux or Windows--maybe Mac would be a
 > problem--but I just checked--you could host a VirtualBox virtual machine
 > on a Mac so they should be able to do that (I used to run VMWare every
 > day on my mac and huge Mac servers--booted and ran many virtual
 > machines--it was awesome)
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 > * Install Emacs & Org-Mode on the VirtualBox virtual machine & show your
 > students, etc.=> reproducible research computing, at its best!
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 > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 2:02 PM briangpowell . <briangpowellms@gmail.com
 > <mailto:briangpowellms@gmail.com>> wrote:
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 >     You name it in the virtual world & I've done it--and of course Emacs
 >     Org-Mode works great in ALL of them
 >
 >     KVM+Docker{which I posted to this group about
 >     previously}+VMWare+Qemu+VirtualBox+etc. --I agree with other person:
 >     You can find ready-made Docker containers running emacs--personally
 >     I didn't find it all that interesting--too restrictive--prefer
 >     VMWare Workstation images that I can easily make snapshots of--its
 >     great to have many development versions and easily trash something
 >     and just pull out another snapshot version to use instead if I don't
 >     like things {packaging or libraries can get messed up}
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 >     As much as I hate MicroSoft Windows, it pains me to suggest this;
 >     but, I suggest CygWin--which is a RedHat gift--you can just install
 >     your favorite Desktop like LXDE/XWindows/whatever--and run that
 >     right along with Micro$0ft WindBlowz--works great--right on top of
 >     it--I run Org-Mode on that too--lots of fun, highly recommend it
 >
 >     All the best software is ported to ALL platforms--Emacs is in that
 >     category of course
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 >     Alternatively you can FUSE filesystems together--so machines can
 >     become part of the directory of the machine you're most comfortable
 >     with {that runs your fave Org-Mode implementation}
 >
 >     On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 9:28 AM John Kitchin
 >     <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:
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 >         Has anyone had any success in creating or using any kind of
 >         virtual machine that can work across platforms to run
 >         emacs+org-mode?
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 >
 >         John
 >
 >         -----------------------------------
 >         Professor John Kitchin
 >         Doherty Hall A207F
 >         Department of Chemical Engineering
 >         Carnegie Mellon University
 >         Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 >         412-268-7803
 >         @johnkitchin
 >         http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
 >