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VMPlayer / Browser-Appliance

Windows users should also know that they have another 'option' at their disposal for if and when venturing onto the internet.

VMWare Player's 'Browser-Appliance'.

Found at:

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/browserapp.html

What does this do?

In puts your internet session into a safe 'sand box' running in a 'virtual machine' with Linux Unbuntu 5.1 and will not propogate back to the Windows O/S upon which VMWare Player runs! And you can set up options to allow, among other things, the 'Browser-Appliance' to RESET itself to the original settings, everytime you use it!!

This is a 'no brainer' folks.

The fact is Windows has suffered from so many security vulnerabilities that running an alternate O/S such as Linux avoids these issues entirely.

I've spent a few days testing the VMWare 'Browser-Appliance' and can say that, at first blush, it's pretty good and runs the Mozilla Firefox 1.5 browser.

Depending on your needs, this may or may not be an option to consider--this advice coming from a 'reformed' Windows User who now enjoys the relative 'serenity' of using SuSE Linux 10.0.

It's a very interesting turn of events that VMWare chose to provide this 'alternative' to the Windows User Community! It's really a viable SAFE alternative, and it's FREE!!!

Give it a look and if you have a high-speed BroadBand connection, you can finish the download and be up and running in a Linux VM session in about an hour--including download time for the 'Browser-Appliance.vmx' image file.

Be Safe!

Posted by: D. T. Schmitz   Posted on: 01/23/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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