Ubuntu Hacks

Just run the installers and launch the programs as if they were any other Linux app. Novell, the company behind the SUSE distribution, recently ran a survey asking people which Windows applications the...

Instead, you can use Wine or Cedega to play them. Wine (http://www.winehq.com), the open source Windows compatibility layer [Hack #87], is well known for its ability to run many popular W...

coLinux (Cooperative Linux), available from http://www.colinux.org/, takes a unique approach to solving the same problems that emulators do. Instead of providing a completely enclosed sandbox like Virtual PC or VMware, it's a port of the Linux kernel...

A virtual machine (VM) is a simulated computer-inside-a-computer, allowing you to boot an entire extra operating system inside your primary environment. You may already be familiar with the concept of emulation: booting Microsoft Win...

The previous hack showed you how to set up a Xen server [Hack #90]. To make use of your newly Xen-enabled host, you need to create some domU virtual machines to run on it. In this hack, you'll set up a basic Dapper virtual machine (VM)....

Virtualization is one of the current buzzwords in the computer industry. Virtualization is where a thin software layer is installed on a computer that allows its processor and other resources to be split among several virtual machines (...