VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1 Released
For Windows, Mac OS X, Linux: Desktop virtualization application, VirtualBox announced the release of a major update, VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1. New features added in this major update include: – Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only) – Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental) – [...]
Free Ways to approach Ubuntu from Windows
For Windows Users: Apart the rhetoric that Linux is not Windows, how can one gradually get used to this different way of conceiving an operating system? Ubuntu has many killer applications Windows users can benefit from. If you’re stuck in your Windows sphere and do not intend moving out – no problem, it is understandable, [...]
Open Source Titbits of the Week
Linux Titbits is a summary of powerful posts on Linux in the blogsphere; in other words post I would have loved to do myself. -> Get a more productive LInux Desktop by lifehacker, is a guide that says -> you can build a better Windows-Linux dual-boot system, or put Windows and Linux side-by-side with VirtualBox. [...]
xVM VirtualBox 2.0 comes with support for your 64-bit Operating Systems
Sun Microsystems, owners of one of the leading desktop virtualization software VirtualBox announced the release of version 2.0 of xVM VirtualBox. With this new version you can now run your 64bit operating systems like Windows Vista, Red Hat Enterprise, FreeBSD 5, or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and many more. Amongst the many innovations, this [...]
Introducing Sabayon Linux 3.5 – Stable Release
The Italian made Gentoo based Linux distro Sabayon goes 3.5. This version, code name Ibex Poacher, (referring to Ubuntu Ibex Intrepid) comes with many major improvements with respect to previous versions – hardware detection is immediately noticeable. It was rather easy to configure on my old Sony Vaio FR215S, even my external Wireless Card had [...]
VirtualBox Exploit – How to Share your USB key between Ubuntu and Windows
A simple way to share your files between your Ubuntu Desktop and Windows is by using Samba file sharing. It creates a common “workgroup” with Windows that makes file transfer between these two systems easy to carry out. Now, if you use VirtualBox (the open source answer to visualization, and also direct competitor to the [...]
