By Tim Ferguson
Published: Monday 04 June 2007
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Richard
Location
UK
Occupation
Consultant
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Virtualisation at the desktop:
For some time, I've been using the VirtualBox virtualizer to run several flavours of Linux on a WindowXP PC.
(Windows can also run on VirtualBox, but Microsoft's licences & "activation" policies make this difficult.)
Even on this very ordinary PC, WinXP and Linux coexist happily; providing the advantages of both.
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