If you've ever wanted to test the Linux operating system, one of the easiest ways of doing so is as a virtual machine. Jack Wallen shows you how it's done. Linux is everywhere — in phones, smart ...

Imagine this: You're using one Linux distribution and you want to quickly deploy a virtual machine of another Linux distribution for either testing purposes or to have a secondary operating system to ...

Now that I’ve spent a long time with different flavors of Linux over the course of my distro-hopping journey, I’ve started to gravitate towards certain distributions for my DIY projects. For example, ...

BackBox Linux is a free, open-source community project based on Ubuntu. Find out how to use the BackBox Linux distribution as a virtual machine. Several Linux distributions are available nowadays for ...

IntroductionI'm Lumi, a third-year university student aiming to become an infrastructure engineer. This is the second installment of a series where I learn infrastructure with Claude Code as my ...

LXCs are a thing, you know?

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of creating simple bash scripts to automate backing up your VirtualBox VMs. Your data center might depend on virtual machines (VMs), and you might use ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...