VMWare Community Virtual Machines

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If you ever wanted to try out Linux but didn't want to go through the hassle of installing and configuring it (and you're on broadband), this is a great way to do it for free:

Community-built virtual machines are built and hosted by individuals in the VMware community. The list of community-built virtual machines contains a growing set of virtual machines designed for a variety of purposes. See what your peers in the community are building.To download any of the pre-built virtual machines below, simply download the virtual machine and run it in the free VMware Player.

Community Virtual Machines

They have preinstalled Fedora, FreeBSD, SUSE w/KDE, Kubuntu and even ReactOS.

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3 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. g8rgeek
    Jan 19, 2006 @ 15:38:46

    Do you not need the full VMWare installed, just the player?

  2. Hackerdude
    Jan 19, 2006 @ 21:55:31

    Yep. Just the player. No need for the full version unless you want to create your own VMs.

  3. g8rgeek
    Feb 20, 2006 @ 04:38:20

    i will definitely have to try it out.

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