Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional/FOSS Geek living and working in New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I am a a FOSS enthusiast, I want to create an awareness about FOSS through the work I do. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
Virtualbox – A bridge between Windows and Linux!!!
This post is not for someone who has a fair amount of experience. It’s for someone who is either looking to convert to Linux and is stuck with Windows or someone new to Linux but not quite familiar with it yet. VirtualBox is a virtualization software. In layman’s language if you’re running an operating system, you can run another operating system independently and at the same time as the host operating system.
For example: If i’m running Ubuntu 8.0. I needed to run Microsoft Publisher. Now Scribus is an alternative but maybe not be quite as smoothly as I’d like. So what to do?
I google “download virtual box”. I download and gdebi it. Start it up. Put in an XP Pro disk/Windows Vista etc.. I start the virtual machine and I’m off. In about half an hour I’ve got a fully functioning XP installation running within my Linux install: 
As you can see here I’ve got VirtualBox running which is loading Windows XP on Ubuntu 8.10. It’s not a very powerful machine either, any computer with at least 2 GB RAM and any 128MB higher graphics card can run it.
This is a great solution if you’re trying to bridge that gap between the two or if you just want to run some windows applications….