[UFO Chicago] VMWare Player and Free (Beer) Operating Systems

[Rory L. O'Connor]

mildly related...for those of you stuck on windows machines...i've found 
colinux to be a lifesaver.

http://www.colinux.org/

Brian Sobolak wrote:
> 
> If you like to tinker in different operating systems and don't have tons
> of spare boxes around, I'd highly recommend taking the new(ish) VMWare
> Player for a spin.  This weekend I ran Fedora, FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Suse to
> take them for a test drive.  Have plans soon for Gentoo too.
> 
> Doug -- you might look at some of the pre-built machines as they have
> Open-Xchange, a collaboration platform, and Zimbra, an ajax-y mail and
> calendar that's free for a small number of users.
> 
> There's also a number of cool pre-built systems that aren't OS-specific: a
> VM that runs Bugzilla, Squid, Oracle, Asterisk.
> 
> <http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/>
> 
> It's a lot easier if you just want to get a taste of an OS without the
> bother of partitioning, dual-booting, etc.
> 
> They've also got a beta of VMWare Server available which lets you run
> multiple servers on the same machine.  Want to run different machines for
> different purposes, but only have one box to do it...run four at once!
> 
> (Which is exactly what I plan to once I buy a new machine)
> 
> brian
> 
> 
> --
> Brian Sobolak
> http://www.planetshwoop.com/
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