vmware ftw!

 

+1 Vmware

I have an entire network topology as a test lab (complete with virtual routers and switches, virtual firewalls) JUST built into one VMware machine with 12 NICs.

I actually even have some VMware images that are running INSIDE of a virtual windows server w/ vmware on it.

You can virtualize a virtualization ad infinium

 

you can vmware your gf

 

Now, that's just twisted

VMWare is okay. Last place I worked at we used ESX and you could move running virtual machines between different physical machines without effecting whatever was running on them. Pretty slick.

Stan

 

We do the same thing - by the end of the year I expect to have about 150+ VMs running on a cluster of 16 physical hosts.

 

i use it as a sandbox, no, not the pee flavored one.

 

crap, now im lost... i dont understand any of that.....

 

try a bootable CD like Knoppix or Ubuntu.

 

Ubuntu will be the most user friendly for you, and has a convenient gui for apt-get, the package manager. Its also backed by a huge community...the beta has hundreds of megs every hour almost worth of updates and bug fixes.

 

ubuntu or fedora at home, suse if you think this machine may be needed at work (MS interoperability).

 

KDE FTW!

 

partitioning your HD is easy, use Fedora...

 

I have grown up using openBSD, freeBSD, and netBSD.. and gentoo linux and slackware..

I recently installed Ubuntu as a basic client OS.. and it works great. I never touch windows anymore.. unless I wanna play a game.