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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers I am so lost... Post 302141169 by cbkihong on Thursday 18th of October 2007 03:03:14 AM

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Another option you may consider is virtual PCs (such as VMWare). Install vmware player, and then download one out of the many Linux virtual appliances available online. Once you "play" it, Linux starts up running in the console window. No install. No mess.

Of course if you would like to install yourself instead of relying on third party appliances, you will need VMWare server, but it is also free. Then you can install Linux as you normally would except you do not install to a real partition but to a virtual disk, that you can easily remove as you like. That's what I am doing on an office desktop.

If you have a fast PC, that is generally not a problem. I have a new laptop with Vista preinstalled and the existing partitioning as shipped makes it tedious for repartitioning for Linux unless I am to reinstall everything. Although vmware PCs is not a real installation, at least that works with minimal mess (and I found it more convenient to switch between Windows and Linux this way compared with dual-boot) and it gives me an opportunity to try a new distro every week without reinstall and reinstall and without burning new DVDs all the time .....

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setsid

SETSID(1)                                                          User Commands                                                         SETSID(1)

NAME

       setsid - run a program in a new session

SYNOPSIS

       setsid [options] program [arguments]

DESCRIPTION

       setsid  runs  a  program in a new session. The command calls fork(2) if already a process group leader. Otherwise, it executes a program in
       the current process.

OPTIONS

       -c, --ctty
              Set the controlling terminal to the current one.

       -w, --wait
              Wait for the execution of the program to end, and return the exit value of this program as the return value of setsid.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.

       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

SEE ALSO

       setsid(2)

AUTHOR

       Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>

AVAILABILITY

       The setsid command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux                                                           July 2014                                                           SETSID(1)