This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system.

playonlinux seems to be similar to cedega except that playonlinux is open-source and free. playonlinux almost support 11 Linux distros. Although there is no package for Ubuntu Intrepid but adding Ubuntu Hardy sources file to my intrepid seems to be working fine.

Yesterday, I discussed the possibility of Wine's inclusion in Ubuntu. That possibility on its own is quite interesting, but it becomes even more interesting if you start thinking about the possibilities for migration from Windows.

When it comes to downloading content from the Internet using a P2P protocol of some sort, I'm more of an eMule (aMule) sort of a person. This is because I like to hunt down old, mundane, forgotten, obscure stuff that you can't possibly find anywhere else - think mime Hungarian movies from the 20s.

Scott Ritchie, an Ubuntu MOTU, posted a suggestion on the Ubuntu Development mailing list today that Wine (what?) be put into Ubuntu's main repositories (what?).
Wine is a piece of software that allows Windows applications to run natively on Linux.

The major press outlets are abuzz this morning with news of a major new security flaw that affects all versions of Internet Explorer from IE5 to the latest beta of IE8. The attack has serious and far-reaching ramifications -- and they're not just theoretical attacks.

I’ve been happily using VMWare’s VMWorkstation to test software setups in virtual machines for about a year. With my new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid test setup, I decided to try Sun’s VirtualBox virtualization system. I chose Sun’s distribution over the OSE version primarily because of its improved USB support.