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3 Ways to Try Out Linux, For a Windows User 1 Year, 8 Months ago

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One of the arguments I often hear from people who are trying to use linux for the first time is that they are not sure if they can switch back to their original choice of OS (usually windows), if they are not satisfied with their experience with linux. These are usually the people who are not as tech savy or previously had bad experience while trying to install linux which resulted in destroying their windows installation. With each iteration of windows OS Microsoft has made it less friendlier for linux to be installed along with windows.

More info @ : www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/06/16/3-ways-to-try-out-linux/

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VMware (Try Out Linux - For a Windows User) 1 Year, 8 Months ago

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Thanks for sharing.. This will be very important for most of new Linux users.

I normal use VMware for testing Linux distribution. That's a great tool. We can even build a virtual network using this software. Used it to practice basic networking stuff.

VMware Workstation is a virtual machine software suite for x86 and x86-64 computers from VMware, a division of EMC Corporation. This software suite allows users to set up multiple x86 and x86-64 virtual computers and to use one or more of these virtual machines simultaneously with the hosting operating system. Each virtual machine instance can execute its own guest operating system, such as Windows, Linux, BSD variants, or others. In simple terms, VMware Workstation allows one physical machine to run multiple operating systems simultaneously. Other VMware products help manage or migrate VMware virtual machines across multiple host-machines.

RUNNING UBUNTU LIVE CD:

Besides bridging to existing host network adapters, CD-ROM devices, hard-disk drives, and USB devices, VMware Workstation also provides the ability to simulate some hardware. For example, it can mount an ISO file as a CD-ROM, and .vmdk files as hard disks; and can configure its network adapter driver to use network address translation (NAT) through the host-machine rather than bridging through it (which would require an IP address for each guest-machine on the host network).

BIOS:

VMware Workstation also allows the testing of Live CDs without first burning them onto physical discs or rebooting the computer. One can also take multiple successive snapshots of an operating system running under VMware Workstation. Each snapshot allows you to roll back the virtual machine to the saved status at any time. The ability to use multiple snapshots makes VMware Workstation useful as a tool for sales-people demonstrating complex software products, and for developers setting up virtual development-environments and virtual test-environments. VMware Workstation includes the ability to designate multiple virtual machines as a team which administrators can then power on and off, suspend, and resume as a single object — making it particularly useful for testing client-server environments.

Snapshot Manager:

Key New Features in Workstation 6.5:

* Integrated desktop experience with “Unity”
* Powerful Record and Replay technology that makes software development easier
* Support for Windows Server 2008
* Link state propagation networking
* Simplified ACE authoring capabilities

More new features at a glance

Broadest Host & Guest Operating System Support

* Runs on both Windows and Linux host operating systems and supports most desktop and server editions of Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris x86, Netware, and FreeBSD as guest operating systems
* Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit host and guest operating systems
* Supports two-way Virtual SMP™ – Assign one or two processors to virtual machines
* Experimental support for VMI 3.0 enabled paravirtualized Linux kernels

Best-in-class Virtual Machine Architecture

* Fully configurable – each virtual machine has configurable memory size, disks and I/O devices and support for CD, DVD, floppy and USB 2.0 devices
* Specify up to 8GB of RAM per virtual machine
* 64-bit sound driver for high-fidelity audio and video
* Easily switch between virtual machines and suspend/resume them
* Easily copy and share virtual machines by creating full and linked clones
* Convert physical into virtual machines and import virtual machine formats from Microsoft, Symantec, StorageCraft, and Acronis.

Advanced Network Support

* Powerful virtual networking options include Bridged, NAT, host-only and custom virtual network settings
* Built-in DHCP server, and up to 10 virtual switches, enable connection of virtual machines to each other, to the host machine and to public networks
* Specify network bandwidth and packet loss rate between virtual machines in a team
* Edit virtual network configurations for Linux hosts through the Virtual Network Editor
* Customize the preferences for physical network adapters with ‘substring matching’ for the adapter name for both NAT and auto-bridged networking

Richest Desktop Experience

* Access applications within virtual machines as if they were part of the host operating system desktop with “Unity” view
* Support for DirectX 9.0c with Shader Model 2 3D graphics
* Configure a virtual machine to span multiple monitors, or multiple virtual machines to each display on separate monitors.
* Create shared folders and drag-and-drop, and copy-paste data between guest and host OSes
* Connect high-speed USB 2.0 devices, including webcams and iPods
* Resize the guest’s screen resolution automatically to fit the size of a window or full screen, or run virtual machines in the background without using the Workstation user interface
* Map a virtual disk to a drive letter on Windows host
* Capture all screen activity in a running virtual machine with movie record and playback feature

Powerful Development and Test Features

* Record entire VM execution and replay it with instruction-exact precision. Use the graphical interface to browse, add markers to, and edit VM recording
* Diagnose non-deterministic bugs with the integrated Record/Replay technology in the Integrated Virtual Debugger for Visual Studio. Debug your applications running in virtual machines in “record” mode and replay prior executions of the VM in “reverse continue” mode.
* Debug applications in the guest OS, attach to a running process, and revert to a snapshot after the debug session has ended with Visual Studio and Eclipse integration
* Capture and easily manage point-in-time copies of running virtual machines and “undo” changes with multiple snapshot feature
* Manage connected virtual machines and simulate multi-tier configurations with teams feature
* Enable remote users to connect to virtual machines from VNC clients with built-in VNC support
* Invoke any virtual machine command from scripts to automate repetitive tasks with VIX Automation API

Security and Mobility

* Experimental support for shared smart card authentication, enabling virtual machines to access secure, corporate information that requires smart card access
* Seamless networking by optionally replicating the physical network connection state with link state propagation
* Package and deploy virtual machines with VMware ACE authoring capability, enabling encryption, network access and password control on portable media devices
* Includes VMware Player 2.5

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Re:VMware (Try Out Linux - For a Windows User) 1 Year, 8 Months ago	Karma: 5
I have use Vmware long time back. but i wanna use the new version of it, jus to be touch on linux environment.. thanks we will talk about VMware issues and installations more here..

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Re:VMware (Try Out Linux - For a Windows User) 1 Year, 8 Months ago	Karma: 3
Sure, do you have the links..? I already have it installed. Try it rapidshare.com/files/142373991/VMware.Wo...Keygen-TBE.part1.rar rapidshare.com/files/142372620/VMware.Wo...Keygen-TBE.part2.rar This is NOT the latest version... Check below It's bit messy when it comes to extracting the RARs. Hope you guys will be able to find the way easily. I'm ready to help is it goes wrong. Enjoy...