Virgin systems [was: Re: GNUCash Financial Contribution]

[Michael Martucci]

Once upon a time Tim Thompson tapped upon the keyboard...


> I've found a really good way to maintain virgin systems for
> building and testing software is using VMWare
> (http://www.vmware.com).  I use it extensively for this in my "day
> job".  You can set up virtual machines with all the popular
> distributions.

Even better, try UML (user mode linux). It's free in both senses,
and lots of useful features, like copy-on-write block devices.

I won't explain stuff here, so look at the stuff on:
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/

 Michael.

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