Without virtualisation, life at Linux Format towers would be a lot more complicated. Testing the DVD would be a nightmare, reviewing new distros would require us to wipe the machine on which we installed last issue’s distros, and if we wanted to test new software on different distros, we’d probably need yet more hardware and yet more time. Yet if you rewind back to the late Mesolithic LXF age – the early 2000s – these were exactly the kind of hardware logistics that the team had to wrangle, all the while living the wild lifestyle encouraged by the heady golden era of dead-tree publishing. Back then tech journalists were made of stronger stuff.
Nowadays things are much more straightforward. If you want to try a new OS, or even if you just want to do something a bit crazy with your current one, all you need do is fire up a virtual machine, and within minutes you have a device that for all intents and purposes behaves like a regular computer. Only you don’t need to worry about breaking it – anything you do can be undone, and no one will come at you with pointed questions/sticks if it breaks.
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