Small, simple, stable and priced right: Is Microsoft’s Virtual PC a good introduction to the world of virtualization and a great way to pull Linux into a Windows environment?
Combining and separating virtual machine workloads is often frustrating and time-consuming. Here are some tips to help you sort through it and maintain your balance.
Virtual appliances deliver focused services in a lightweight package. With all of the talk around virtualization being large system optimization, why single-purpose machines getting so much attention?
Billed as the “Microsoft Access for Linux,” Kexi is an integrated data management application that allows you to easily work with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases.
For as much time as you probably spend in an email client, you should be using an app with the features that help you get your work done and plays well with other (possibly proprietary) applications. Evolution fits that bill.
Using the root account for day-to-day work is a bad idea. It’s better to use sudo to act like root when you need to do a little system administration. Ken Hess shows you how.
Connecting to your home computer from work, a friend’s house, or while on vacation in another country is very simple — if you know how to use a small handful of tools. Ken Hess shows you how to connect securely and tunnel traffic using SSH.
If you need a staging environment for a new network service, don’t run out and buy new hardware — even a new virtual machine may be unnecessary. Instead, create another instance of the service with just a few simple steps.