NewsForge: First Look: VMware Player

"Last month VMware released a free product called VMware Player. With the Player and one of the free images that run within it, users can explore new operating systems and environments without going through the inconvenience of formatting or partitioning a hard drive or configuring unfamiliar software. I tested the player by running Ubuntu Linux on a Windows host, and got good results with only a few glitches.

"I'm typing this review from AbiWord in Ubuntu Linux on my Windows XP machine, which has an AMD Athlon XP 3200 chip, a 2.21GHz processor, and 384MB of RAM..."

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