Some useful resources

Some good links

Review of OOP

Running Linux in VMWare on Windows

The Easy Way

The easiest way to run Linux on Windows (within a window) is to:
  1. Download and install the free VMWare Player.
  2. Download and uncompress/un-rar this Ubuntu VMWare Image (the uncompressed VMWare image takes about 3GB of disk space).
  3. Launch your uncompressed VMWare application (the Ubuntu.vmx file) with the VMWare Player.

The Adventurous Way

If you're more adventurous and want to roll your own version (e.g., if you want to run RedHat's Fedora distribution instead of the Debian Ubuntu distribution of Linux), you can download the free VMWare Server and then follow the directions in one of the following tutorials (the first one's pretty good).

Using a Linux Live CD/DVD