{"id":9,"date":"2006-11-26T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/26\/thoughtpolice-vm-images-for-major-oss\/"},"modified":"2006-11-26T17:57:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T17:57:28","slug":"thoughtpolice-vm-images-for-major-oss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/26\/thoughtpolice-vm-images-for-major-oss\/","title":{"rendered":"ThoughtPolice &#8211; VM Images for major OS&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Talis we&#8217;ve been doing a lot of work using vmware, I routinely run a  Fedora Core 5 image for developing code in, which works wonderfully well on the dell laptop I have which has virtualisation support and lots of memory \ud83d\ude09  I also have Red Hat, KNOPPIX and SUSE VM machine for trying out other things.<\/p>\n<p>One of my colleagues, <a title=\"Rob Styles Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamicorange.com\/blog\/\">Rob Styles<\/a>, introduced me to thoughtpolice.co.uk, who have provided VM Images of many popular distros, this lowers the barrier hugely since I dont have to worry about installing a distro from scratch which can be time consuming.  I use this site regularly and recommend that anyone who might be thinking of setting up a virtual machine running a linux distro to check here before installing from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Thoughtpolice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thoughtpolice.co.uk\/vmware\">http:\/\/www.thoughtpolice.co.uk\/vmware <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Talis we&#8217;ve been doing a lot of work using vmware, I routinely run a Fedora Core 5 image for developing code in, which works wonderfully well on the dell laptop I have which has virtualisation support and lots of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/26\/thoughtpolice-vm-images-for-major-oss\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[390,393],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-vmware","tag-linux","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}