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Stories · 4

  1. A Virtualized Linux System For Windows

    Linux · Os · · posted by kdawson · from the bill-in-the-middle dept. · 280 comments
    getupstandup1 writes "Ulteo today unveiled their Virtual Desktop (screenshots, download) which is a free, full Linux desktop that runs seamlessly on Windows. It's interesting because it's not running under Xen or VMWare, but instead uses the coLinux patch, which they claim allows the system to achieve 'great performance, close to a native installation on the PC.' No need to reboot the system anymore to switch from Windows to Linux." We discussed Ulteo when the Ubuntu-derived distro was announced a year back.

  2. A Free Software X11R6.9 X Server for Windows

    Tech · X · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the still-xcellent-after-all-these-years dept. · 0 comments
    Anonymous Coward writes "Xming has been released with latest Xorg X11R6.9. Xming is a Free Software port of the X Window Server to Microsoft Windows. It shares the same source code base as Cygwin/X but does not depend on the Cygwin environment or cygwin1.dll. Xming is a fully featured X Window Server that is very simple to install and use interactively. Xming X Server for Windows, is made from Xorg (X11R6.9), and a patch bundle, cross-compiled with MinGW and Pthreads-Win32 For MS Windows users who have never tried Linux this could prove to be the easiest way when used with Microsoft Services for Unix (SFU) or coLinux."

  3. Moving from Linux to Windows Desktop?

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the mitigating-the-pain dept. · 167 comments
    slyall asks: "I work in the Network/System Admin team for an ISP. Our firm was recently bought by another company that has mandated that my team's desktops be switched over from Linux to Windows XP in the next few weeks. Some of us are have used Linux almost exclusively and going to Windows is a big change. Can people suggest any tips, books or websites to help Linux people shoved into the Windows world (especially those running lots of Linux and Cisco boxes)? We've all got years of experience on Linux but running Windows day to day is a big challenge. We don't yet know if the company will provide us with tools such as Cygwin or Windows Services for UNIX but we won't be allowed to install random programs and may not have admin access. We're not happy with the change but we're unable to stop it. What we are hoping to do is reduce the performance hit that the changeover is going to cause." This is probably one of those situations where a LiveCD-based distribution, for use in an emergency, might help.

  4. Announcing Cooperative Linux

    Linux · Windows · · posted by timothy · from the it's-real-friendly-like dept. · 321 comments
    evilmf writes "Well... I was on my daily "relaxing" read of the LKML when I've found an interesting announce about "Cooperative Linux", in this message from Dan Aloni. It allows you to run Linux on an unmodified Win2000/XP system, just launching another app. Dan says that Cooperative Linux is 'is stable enough (on some common hardware configurations) for running a fully functional KNOPPIX/Debian system on Windows,' and provides some screenshots in the project homepage."