Gar Nelson> the Red Hat column came after this one even if it's only now that it's on the website.
For the rest, the biggest stumble for me is the hardware specifications device makers keep non-disclosed. Remember, that was one of the reason Stallman went into this whole stuff in the first place.
In fact, it would be enough even if they never open sourced their drivers. »
Don't forget that you can't compare those solutions so straightforwardly as the underlying technology is quite different.
Check Wikipedia's page on virtualization
And as Mike says, with the next generation hardware support, Xen is really leading the way. »
Very informative. It reminds me I need to take some time and backup a few workstations.
2 remarks and 1 question :
1- Check also for a promising new front-end to cdrtools on Win.
2- Figure 4 is the same as figure 3.
3- How about backing up a MacOS X PPC box ? »