Like free stuff? If you’re an MIT student, did you know you can get a free virtual machine, courtesy of SIPB’s XVM project? That’s right, your own tiny VM, for free! Mandatory disclaimer: the VMs are indeed… very tiny, with only one core and 512 MiB of RAM, and XVM has some quirks. But you can still do a lot of cool stuff with it! Using the autoinstaller First off, make sure you know the basics of Linux and server administration.

Thank you to the alums who came out and hung out with us for the evening! photos from sipb55