Run a copy of Windows in a VM and ditch Oracle's Java. That way you can run SSMS, etc... I run Windows 7 and Server 2012 along with various versions SQL Serve

Run a copy of Windows in a VM and ditch Oracle's Java. That way you can run SSMS, etc... I run Windows 7 and Server 2012 along with various versions SQL Server in VMWare on a Ubuntu host with no issues.