If you've ever wanted to test the Linux operating system, one of the easiest ways of doing so is as a virtual machine. Jack Wallen shows you how it's done. Linux is everywhere — in phones, smart ...

BackBox Linux is a free, open-source community project based on Ubuntu. Find out how to use the BackBox Linux distribution as a virtual machine. Several Linux distributions are available nowadays for ...

The itch to try out Linux is universal. Almost everyone who is into technology has heard of it, and having another operating system option besides Windows and macOS sounds pretty appealing. However, ...

Imagine this: You're using one Linux distribution and you want to quickly deploy a virtual machine of another Linux distribution for either testing purposes or to have a secondary operating system to ...

It wasn’t long ago that we looked at easily creating Docker containers from the command line so you could just easily spin up a virtual environment for development. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could do ...

In the previous article, I discussed the idea that "Kali Linux is not a scary OS." As a follow-up, this time we will move on ...

IBM is expanding its “buy-as-you-need” utility approach to Linux on the mainframe. In an announcement today, IBM said it will offer customers capacity as needed by creating virtual Linux servers on ...

If you are looking to use Linux Mint without creating a separate partition on your computer, a hypervisor such as VMware Workstation is the way to go. In this post, we will see a step-by-step guide to ...

DistroSea let me explore familiar desktops and obscure alternatives without downloading a single ISO ...

In a move that caused more than a few eyes to bulge and jaws to drop, last July Microsoft announced it was contributing code to the Linux community with hopes of having it included in the Linux tree.

The best virtual machine software for Mac lets you run Windows, Linux, older operating systems, and isolated development environments without replacing macOS. Parallels Desktop offers the easiest ...