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Windows vs Linux, and Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Meeting Five
Lesson:
- Review of last meeting
- Differences between free software, freeware, shareware, crippleware, nagware
- Please watch this: http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
- Running different environments on a machine
- Replacement tools for commonly used applications
- Win vs Linux
- What is a Live CD?
- Virtualization and the benefits
- Cloud Computing - what is that all about?
- Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Resources:
Link: A comparison of Linux and Windows
Link: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/videos/ - Choose Eben Moglen's keynote
Link: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/lpt/a/1136
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor - Explanation of a hypervisor, a type of platform-virtualization
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