Well, it’s been a while since I posted anything here, mainly due to the stresses of work and also not really having anything interesting to say. Anyways, as part of a project here I’ve had to work with Linux over the last week or so – so here’s how I went about installing SuSE Enterprise Linux on Hyper-V.
A few weeks ago I wrote a short couple of paragraphs on Ubuntu Linux and how easy it was to install for the home user. That’s all fine and dandy, but would a home user be able to cope with something so different? Was I able to cope with it as my main OS? Read more…
For most people computer software is what comes with their computer. Usually this means some combination of Windows XP Home Edition, Internet Explorer, perhaps Microsoft’s Works suite and some CD/DVD writing software. The average user doesn’t tend to do upgrades either and as such, the uptake of open source software is relatively small outside the commercial and geeky community.
Installing VMware on a Linux server is a cheap and easy way to get virtual machines up and running. In order to maximise system resources for VMware, an absolutely minimal Linux base operating environment provides the ideal platform to build upon.
