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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. Re:Windows users can now use more free apps! by selderrr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    people who are trying to port some of the more sophisticated Linux apps to Windows, and may simply give up when they hear that because of this, no porting is required

    Look at it the other way : if great linux apps are not ported to windows, but instead are delivered with an easy install of colinux+a small distro (the keyword here will be easy !) then more people will learn to know linux. And one day perhaps install it as 2nd OS on their machine, from which the step to primary OS is a small one !

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  2. inter-OS communications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When you send data to 127.0.0.1, which OS picks it up? This boggles my mind.