Eric Mesa | December 21, 2011
I’ve been using Virtualbox for a long time to run virtual machines when I want to check out other distros before I install them on one of my computers or to review them. It’s MOSTLY open source, although some of the key parts like USB 2.0 are free to use, but not open source. So [...]
Category: Geek Love, Linux |
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Tags: KVM, Oracle, QEMU, Red Hat, virt-manager, virtual box, virtual machine manager, virtualization
Eric Mesa | September 20, 2010
This is the first time in nearly 10 years that I’m moving to a new version of WIndows. I pop the CD in and boot up. I see a text screen as Windows “loads files”. Nothing here different from a Linux distro. Then the Windows logo pops up. Wow, I’m impressed that Microsoft finally caught [...]
Category: Computers, Linux, M$, Science and Technology |
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Tags: Fedora, Linux, Red Hat, SSD, ubuntu, Windows, Windows 7
Eric Mesa | August 23, 2008
Well, the latest craze to hit the Linux bloggers is talking about Empathy. Everyone is talking about it. It’s apparently going to be in the next version of Gnome and Ubuntu is considering replacing Pidgin with Empathy for the next release. First of all, depending on how much work is done on Empathy between now [...]
Category: Gnome, Red Hat |
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Tags: Empathy, Oracle, Pidgin, Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL, Unbreakable Linux