Wayne at fskin w/ linux has just written a short tutorial on how to browse anonymously through Tor in just 30 seconds on Ubuntu. I’ve just tried it out and I’ve got to say it’s pretty effective.
You need user-agent-switcher (Firefox) to finalise the deal, but this is a fine start.
Have a look at this great little comparison between the biggest four names in virtualization.
This article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source x86 emulator Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels Workstation.
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This article looked at four different products for virtualization in Linux, specifically Ubuntu Linux. The findings were interesting - the only product that requires the purchase of a licence for personal use, Parallels, actually performed the worst of the group. Qemu did well for a completely free-as-in-speech application, although VMware and VirtualBox blew the competition away in terms of performance.
I’ve always considered the repositories one of the strongest parts of “modern” Linux but until now, most have only been used for distributing free apps.
Now Canonical are moving to enable developers to distribute their closed-source applications through Synaptic; something that could really spur on the enterprise and newbie-home-user support for Ubuntu.
Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, will on Thursday begin making commercial applications available to Ubuntu users directly through the desktop, in a step designed to simplify software installation.