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A Virtualized Linux System For Windows
getupstandup1 writes "Ulteo today unveiled their Virtual Desktop (screenshots, download) which is a free, full Linux desktop that runs seamlessly on Windows. It's interesting because it's not running under Xen or VMWare, but instead uses the coLinux patch, which they claim allows the system to achieve 'great performance, close to a native installation on the PC.' No need to reboot the system anymore to switch from Windows to Linux." We discussed Ulteo when the Ubuntu-derived distro was announced a year back.
Yeah, unfortunately the video output is as snappy as VNC or VMWare. Virtualize the 3d graphics driver already.
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Can it use your 3d card? stuff on the usb ports? firewire? other add in cards?
I don't think this will happen in as much depth as you are hoping. While Linux is 100% free and open source, it makes porting it to a proprietary OS easier then doing the reverse. WGA and other things don't help.
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Except Linux is a name, and thus not subject to normal endings. E.G. Phil Falux's family is not the Faluces. It's the Faluxs. Thus, Linuxs is probably the most correct form, though Linuxes wouldn't be in very bad taste.
"Is it just me, or did this already exist [andlinux.org]? Doesn't sound that new to me.."
What worries me, is this runs in 'system managment mode' sounds like colinux is a perfect system to design a 'stealth' rootkit around...
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/11/2044216&from=rss
great just great, as if paid hackers needed any help designing and deploying system managment mode rootkits, with colinux they can put a full LAMP server on somone's windows box and they'd never notice, except that their bandwidth and memory keep getting used up...
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
But... isnt a house on a dung hill, better than just standing on a dung hill by itself?
Especially since, you can make the air seem a little more fresh with freshners, take a shower, get out of the sun, etc.
Actually, in this case putting the dung hill on top of the house makes the most sense. You get the benefits of living in a house that's not built on a dung pile, and you still get the benefits of the dung pile!
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I tend to prefer having the MORE stable OS be the one with direct hardware access, and the flakier OS standing on the other's shoulders. Vmware is the only way I've run windows at home at all in many years, and it works out just fine for me.
A computer without Microsoft is like ice cream without ketchup.
If those knuckleheads ever finalized the OpenGL3 spec it might get more love from game developers and thus make it easier for games to be ported to linux.
I have to use Windows on my work computer, but I need to run some unix apps, primarily C++ apps that I compile using g++. So, I use Cygwin. Is this a potential replacement, and if so, why?
The more people I meet, the better I like my dog.
Some of us who use Windows are ex-Unix/BSD/Linux users, and miss some Unix software. There is of course CygWin, but it's awful, and VMs tend to be too resource hungry on systems like laptops. There's also Microsoft's Unix subsystem, but it's not widely used, so not widely supported.
I haven't tried this (or any other coLinux derivative), but it sounds interesting, especially if it's able to run on a laptop without draining the battery. I'd like to be able to run some of the software (mostly command-line) that I miss from my pre-Windows days (i.e. my pre-university days, since I'm not studying anything related to computing), but using Linux alone is a complete non-starter, for various reasons, including missing features compared to Windows, lack of hardware support, lack of good power management on a lot of hardware, lack of support for applications I need to use, etc.
I'm at work. I support a Microsoft environment. I don't like it but that's what I do. So That's what I have to run.