After I upgraded laptops about a year ago I never re-installed Linux on it as I did not want to have to partition a drive specifically for Linux. So for the past year I have not been able to play with Linux while on travel. Last week this issue came to a head when I could not answer a work related question because I did not have the OS in front of me.
So I started looking around and asking some of my buddies for a solution to the issue. Low and behold VMWare has solved the crisis. After getting VMWare loaded and playing around I have been able to install several versions of Unix. The installs were done easily and whats even more amazing is that I have a fully functional OS residing on my Windows XP-NTFS partitioned hard drive.
Now If I could just figure out how to make VMware work in my portable Firewire drive that I carry with a extra 60gigs of external HD space I would be ecstatic. So for those of you wanting to experiment with Linux or another version without dedicating a PC to it this is the answer. [VMWare]