Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1. All performed well, and each had at least one truly outstanding feature.
In the last couple of years, desktop-friendly Linux distributions have taken enormous leaps -- they're easier to install, better maintained, and more powerful than ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
As the world of virtualization moves forward, organisations are faced with compelling reasons to virtualize: factors like server consolidation, high energy bills, faster hardware, ease of use and step back and quick snapshot technology make the virtual computing realm become more attractive.
In some organisations virtualization has already become a large ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Seeing as I've just spent the morning trying to get all this up and running I thought I'd create an entry about how to get Backtrack running in VirtualBox.
For those who haven't heard of it, VirtualBox is an open source equivalent to vmware workstation. It does full snapshoting (unlike vmware ...
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