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Announcing Cooperative Linux

Posted by timothy on from the it's-real-friendly-like dept.

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."

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  1. Unfourtuantely by Hal+The+Computer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well this is definitely Really Neat, after reading their homepage, I see that In its current condition, it allows us to run the KNOPPIX Japanese Edition on Windows. Unfourtunately as far as I can tell, that's all it can run without modification.
    Also, coLinux currently lacks documentation.
    If you don't speak Japenese, you might have some difficulties using this software to it's fullest.

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    int main(void){int x=01232;while(malloc(x));return x;}
  2. Re:Rootless? by dolmen.fr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Cygwin/XFree86 can be run rootless, and even using Windows as a WM for better integration.

    From the Cygwin bash prompt, launch:
    XWin -multiwindow &

    There is a startxwin.bat that does that and that is bundled with Cygwin/XFree86.