Giving your computer multiple personalities!

Giving you options
Virtual Environments are a testers best friend.
The biggest issues with testing a new environment is when things go wrong. It's better to lose a virtual environment, which can be backedup and used over and over. Than your main operating system.

Use Windows, need a Windows Server and want to play with Linux. You can have it on a single PC.
Parallels Workstation 2.2 is avaiable as a 15 Day Trial.

So give it a try. You'll see that at any skill level you can get you're system up and running.
I've been using virtual environments for QA testing, Windows Server testing, to test Java code in Apache on Linux. VM makes life so much easier.

Website:http://www.parallels.com/