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Thanks Mugojava this is new to me I'll definitely check this out.
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Thanks Mugojava this is new to me I'll definitely check this out.

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I have a lenovo laptop that has Windows 8.1 Touch screen. I want to setup a virtual OS on my laptop I want to use RED Hat Linux cause I want to understand Linux. I'm totally clueless what should I use as a Virtual technology and can I install RedHAT linux using it as a lamp server? Is there free Virtual Clients and is Red hat still free to setup and use? &nbsp;and will this work and not screw up my laptop it's 64 bit?
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I have a lenovo laptop that has Windows 8.1 Touch screen. I want to setup a virtual OS on my laptop I want to use RED Hat Linux cause I want to understand Linux. I'm totally clueless what should I use as a Virtual technology and can I install RedHAT linux using it as a lamp server? Is there free Virtual Clients and is Red hat still free to setup and use?  and will this work and not screw up my laptop it's 64 bit?

red hat as virtual platform on windows 8.1 touch laptop

Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.

Linux

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.