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Written by Christopher Mead
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
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 VirtualBox, created by innotek, is a commercial and proprietary x86 virtualizer for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Since January of 2007, VirtualBox has been available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) as a slightly limited, open-source version known as VirtualBox OSE (Open source edition). So, what is virtualization? It's been all the talk lately, but what's it all really about? Well, let's talk about it, and while we do, let's discuss one of the most popular virtualization tools out there, namely VirtualBox.
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Written by Edmund Locke
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
  It was the year 2020, ten years after the great operating system wars of 2010, after the great American recession of 2009, after the world fell into chaos only to stand up again within a world of enlightenment, where Windows was cast out of the light and into the murky depths of obscurity; in its wake, Linux stood with all the glory and valor of a would-be king amongst commoners, of a hero amongst cowards. It was a world where many nations used open source, where many nations proudly turned their backs on a proprietary past, where many nations said, "enough is enough" and that today and tomorrow and for the rest of their lives, they would use a better, faster, more efficient operating system, and they would no longer be forced into madness at the feet of a mega corporation and its buggy, slow, and wasteful operating system. Many nations that is, except for the once powerful America, wherein many office buildings, many hospitals, many schools, there was still running that last dynasty of the former mega corp, Windows XP, some nineteen years after its initial release.
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How many Linux users are there in the world? 5,000? 5,000,000? 50,000,000? No one is really sure. Linux users aren't forced to register their operating system with any corporation; Linux users are free to install and use Linux without anyone ever being the wiser. And what about all of the people who don't even realize they're using Linux? Is Linux running your PDA? Smart Phone? GPS? TiVO? Tablet? Router? Wrist watch? Car? Is Linux lurking inside all of your electronic gadgets? Probably not, but it's turning up more and more these days.
He died for our sins; he gave the ultimate sacrifice to save humanity; and he was a socialist that would have used Linux instead of Windows given the chance. You only need to quote Jesus to understand he was a true socialist at heart and shunned the rich. To the poor of the land, he would say “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God” and to the rich of the lands he would say “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth... and go, sell what you have, and give to the poor.” Spoken like a true socialist! In modern times, Jesus would rather live in a socialist country like France where the governments of the land care for the people, and the Linux distributions are many and widespread. In fact, Jesus's contempt for the rich and the capitalist system went further; he was quoted as saying “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” 
FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) is defined on wikipedia.org as a "tactic of rhetoric used in sales, marketing and public relations....a strategic attempt to influence public perception by disseminating negative (and vague) information". In layman's terms, it's a bunch of bull to scare people into doing what they want you to do. Linux and the Open Source community are no strangers to FUD. Anything free and open strikes cold, primival fear into the hearts of proprietary software makers everywhere. We invite you, the LinuxHow2 reader, to 