I am subscribed to a MOO programmers list, and someone offered a Vagrant file for MOO tools; so besides eliminating dependency problems it can be used to giftwrap goodies. However, virtualisation still takes a little setting up and although performance has improved considerably in recent times older machines (to address the same ethic as 'offline first', namely do not design primarily for the most well-prepared users) might balk. A liveboot image seems a nice alternative. -Arlo
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