Let's start right off by tackling the most pertinent question for this article: why the heck would someone want to run Linux on a Mac system that already has a very nice Linux distro hidden beneath ...

Canonical has released a special version of its Ubuntu Server Linux distribution that is tailored to run as part of a virtual appliance. Dubbed Ubuntu JeOS (Just Enough Operating System), the software ...

The very first issue that those who live in a Microsoft world might encounter is that Microsoft’s Virtual PC product doesn’t handle a 24-bit video display which, coincidentally, is the default display ...

I downloaded the software, installed it, and proceeded to install my Ubuntu .iso file in an 8GB virtual file. Everything loaded properly, quite quickly, and soon enough, I was running Ubuntu in a ...

I guess you are limited by the video card that Windows VirtualBox provides to the Ubuntu VM. Normally you can choose different models, increase video RAM, that kind of thing. (Or just use some ...

Tired of Windows? Sick of paying big money for Macs? Want a better, more secure desktop? Give Linux a try. Read now Ubuntu joins AWS' Microsoft Windows and AWS' own Amazon Linux options on Amazon ...

I've been meaning to try VirtualBox, the free x86 virtualisation product from InnoTek, and a comment to my previous Vista/Ubuntu post has pushed me into it. Of course, I can't just put a Windows OS on ...