On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Chris Brennan <xa...@xaerolimit.net> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:12 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> another thing about times changing - virtuals are great. download some >> popular distros (don't limit yourself to linux either). i'd suggest >> debian, fedora, centos, ubuntu, and freebsd. then get virtual box and >> have fun. go, install, snapshot and then mess everything up. if you >> can't figure out how to put it back together again, revert to the >> snapshot. > > You'll need VMWare or VirtualBox (VBox is free but because it's not Oracle > owned, it's licence might radically change without warning ... If you > *really* want to make a project out of it, try Gentoo too, fair warning > though, it can be time consuming.
virtualbox, vmware, xen, hyperv, kvm, qemu, virtual iron (are they still in business?), and i'm probably missing some others. the reason i just mentioned virtualbox is because it's easy. there is also proxmox which is a bare metal environment but that requires spare hardware and isn't as mature as virtualbox. per the source of virtualbox - oracle owns it. however, it is all under a gpl type license exept the usb driver which is close source. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTikf8NUq7oi-qZtaUNo2a=2=t...@mail.gmail.com
