Let's start right off by tackling the most pertinent question for this article: why the heck would someone want to run Linux on a Mac system that already has a very nice Linux distro hidden beneath ...

Start the virtual machine and boot from your Ubuntu CD; this time choose the menu option to Start Ubuntu in safe graphics mode. Note that this does not actually install Ubuntu; all it does is boot it ...

Not every distro is suited for every job.

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 ...

With virtualisation becoming a mainstream technology, it’s becoming reasonable that Linux distros like Ubuntu will not always require a dedicated computer but instead be contained within a virtualised ...