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Will Linux For Windows Change The World?

Posted by timothy on from the making-inroads dept.

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.)

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  1. First for me by drsmack1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Never caught on this quick.

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  2. blah blah blah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!

  3. FP? On 56K? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Could it be? bare pwnt? DiKKy shitheaped? Owned by rolloffle?

  4. IBM Linux Adverts using George Lucas motif by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well if it is the start of a whole new revolution, IBM appears to be trying to sell exactly the same line...the George Lucas Motif of the white haired boy in their Internet adverts...Quotes from Darwin over survival of the species...George Lucas's 1977 Star Wars being the key turning point in late 20th Century film history... ...So now we have Microsoft in the red corner...

    in the blue corner we have Charles Darwin, George Lucas (the force), IBM, Israel, Japan....

  5. No way... by chris_eineke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wait a second... you adverte a commercial product and you don't insert a url into your text... What is this?! [...] Slashdot?

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  6. Re:Conquering Windows by Ryan+Huddleston · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Good job on the obligatory Underpants Gnome reference! Good use of a classic.

  7. yhbt. yhl. yff! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  8. windows driver support sux0rs by XO · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i think this would be great, but WINDOWS doesn't SUPPORT my SCSI CONTROLLER.. so I -have- to use Linux, and then use Wine to run my computer! DOH! hehehehhe

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  9. Re:Conquering Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn, you got this post down exactly!

    Prepare to be modded down for mocking Linux.

  10. lol, mod parent up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    +1, Funny

  11. Re:Conquering Windows by Doug+Neal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Much more money in PC games though I'm afraid. And as always, money talks.

    Linux isn't about money, it's about high quality, free software.

  12. Then You Too must be a genious! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you from the spawning generations of the Israeli Defence? Because they are geniouses. So, either you, too are an Israeli genious, or you stole the fantastic idea. Nobody could've thought of this unless a genious. But they did it once again. Didn't they?