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Will Linux For Windows Change The World?
An anonymous reader writes "A month ago, a trial version of a little-known Linux application called 'CoLinux' was released that is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. It's the work of a 21-year-old Israeli computer science student and some Japanese open source programmers; in Israel, analysts are already saying it could help transform the software world." (CoLinux is short for Cooperative Linux; we mentioned this project in January as well.)
omg you fail it like a true nigger fag
No. No, it won't. Move along, nothing to see here...
gay / i hate niggers
Not really kid... I think maybe you just like to hear yourself talk. Why don't you go play a game of hide-and-go-fuck-yourself?
How about a list of things wrong with your post instead?
1.) Linux has plenty of great fonts, it just depends what distro you pick and if you install more than just the base packages.
2.) DirectX is a MICROSOFT ONLY format. It will never, ever, be in any linux distro except in emulation form. And for second, why should it be? OpenGL is fine and great, and with 2.0 coming out you can stuff DirectX where the sun don't shine.
3.) Great, so linux gets to turn into Windows by taking away the free choice of picking your own gui? I don't think so! MORON.
Maybe this project doesnt "Fill the gap" but there's enough decent distro's out there to make using windows a pain in the a$$
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You are a moron. Or at least an extremely ignorant and opinionated person.
To explain why you are wrong I would have to assume that your knowledge of the OS design is so miniscule, I would have to teach you a course on it, from the introduction and to the level where it becomes practical, and I am certainly not going to do that on Slashdot.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
>> Perhaps if DirectX actually was inferior, and if it wasn't the primary or only API for 90% of the games out there, you'd have a point.
+5 CORRECT.
it will suck just like all other Linux versions! Har Har!! Only on slashdot do you get labeled a troll for supporting the operating system family that 90% of the world runs!!
Well, I wouldn't want to use a 3.0 Mhz system either. But running Windows under VMware on Linux works fine on my 600 Mhz Pentium III with 512MB of RAM.
You are an idiot if you bought a 3GHz laptop just to run VMware. Your Vaio could have done it easily had you been smart enough to upgrade the RAM to something higher than 256MB. Sheesh, Linux/GNOME or Windows XP alone won't run well in 128MB, so it should make sense to you than running both won't work in 256MB. Does fine in 512MB for me though, with 192MB allocated for Windows XP in VMware, running alongside X/GNOME, Mozilla, Evolution and some xterms.
You're right. Instead of focusing on Israeli achievement, which is obviously just a PR exercise we should be focusing on Arab contributions to science and the arts in the last two hundred years.
Care to mention any?
Jews and persons of half-Jewish ancestry have been awarded at least 161 Nobel Prizes,1 accounting for 22% of all such prizes awarded to individuals worldwide between 1901 and 2003.
Let me guess, the fact that Jews make up less than one quarter of one percent of the world's population, yet have made such a contribution, is also a PR exercise?
You idiot.
by running Linux on it? Could some Linux experts please explain this? Thanks.