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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. Why would I want to make linux unstable by codepunk · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why would I wish to make linux unstable by running it on a second rate operating system.

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  2. Re:Support? by iantri · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, Microsoft says you are not allowed to develop GPL software with Visual Studio and its compilers (google around), so yes, I can imagine they would try this.

  3. Re:Side by side comparison by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 0, Troll

    How many virtual desktops does Windoze XP support?

  4. Learn a new joke. by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Troll

    May you be modded down for using old and tired humor you insensitive clod. And by the way, you can buy a perfectly adequate 486 Linux box at Goodwill for $50. You see, Linux does not require the same resources as Windows. Now go out and get a cheap box, and download some ISO, and run a dedicated Linux box along side your Widows resource hog. Tie the two up with Samba, simmer for a few days, and enjoy with a nice American pilsner.

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  5. Re:possibly not by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Troll
    it's like being bisexual.

    Assume you're a gay linux user (that shouldn't be too hard to imagine). Now imagine you're interested in pussy, but you know most girls are repelled by the foul stench emenating from your body. So you and your lug biddies have sex with each other every other night. But on Friday nights you go out crusing and maybe you'll pick up a prostitute, or Courtney Love will be in town, and you can fuck a woman.

    Hope that helps.

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  6. The Israel Defence Force by Magickcat · · Score: 0, Troll

    The article started "Looks like the Israel Defence Force may have done it again." I mistakenly assumed they murdered yet another enemy without a trial - silly me, it was just about Linux.

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  7. Re:Conquering Windows by rve · · Score: 0, Troll

    1.) Collect underpants
    2.) ???
    3.) Profit!