Systems Management

How to use VMware Player to create your own images

Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:00 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier

The easiest way to get a virtual image is to have someone with VMware Workstation create one for you, or to download a pre-made image from VMware. If you don't know anyone with a copy of Workstation, or the OS you want isn't available as a VMware appliance, you're out of luck. For example, if you want to test a development release of Ubuntu or Debian, it's unlikely that you'll find a VMware image available.

An introduction to services, runlevels, and rc.d scripts

Wednesday, 11 January 2006 08:00 administrator

A Linux service is an application (or set of applications) that runs in the background waiting to be used, or carrying out essential tasks. I've already mentioned a couple of typical ones (Apache and MySQL). You will generally be unaware of services until you need them.

Auditor: The security tool collection

Friday, 23 September 2005 08:00 administrator

To get started, download the latest image of Auditor and burn it as a bootable image. Remember to use the image option -- just copying the file will not produce a bootable image. After you have successfully written the image to disc, you can start Auditor directly from the CD. It will not install any permanent software on the hard disk unless you request it to, so don't be nervous to use Auditor on a client workstation.