Kurt Seifried explains how you can safely play with your systems in the security of a sandbox.
If you're like me, you love to test new software, and therein lies one of the huge advantages of the open source world. Almost everything is just a short wget, ./configure; make; make install away, and there's no need to pay, register, provide personal information, wait a week for the CD to arrive, and so forth. But how can you be certain that the software won't interfere with your system, overwrite something, or otherwise behave badly?
Or what if you want to run a web service that you know has a history of problems allowing for remote code execution on the web server?
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