Re: New to Linux
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:12 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@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.
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