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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.
Is it just me, or did this already exist? Doesn't sound that new to me...
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Yeah, unfortunately the video output is as snappy as VNC or VMWare. Virtualize the 3d graphics driver already.
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I'm going to have to look into their "application balls" -- the applications I have now are all effete and neutered.
In fact, wiki has a list. Look under the "Guest OS speed relative to Host OS" column: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines#More_Details
Most are native or near native.
I'm not sure which is worse, trying to get ubuntu installed through virtual pc or relying on slashdot for all of your technology advice.
Does it have native support for wine?
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
Linuces. The 'x' is only the nominative singular form, for everything else you use c + ending.
Can it use your 3d card? stuff on the usb ports? firewire? other add in cards?
Indeed. Everybody knows that we come to slashdot for legal and romantic advice.
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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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Why on earth would anyone want to run Linux on a Windows box? That's like building your house on a dung hill.
Though I suppose it comes in handy for accessing those Linux only web sites. ;)
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linux => linuces
I think I prefer the incorrect Linuxen, if only because I can then imagine giant penguins being used as cattle.
I would include a sound effect (i.e., Mooooo~) here, but I have no idea what kinda sound effect Penguins do. Perhaps...
SEGFAUUUUUUUUT~~~~
Either that, or that the dictionary is in alphabetic order, as is the norm for dictionaries...
The Ulteo Logo looks like a dead ringer for Konami's old logo.
I guess this means you need to press Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A to get the thing to boot properly?
So Tux becomes Tuces? :D
In order: no, no, no, no.
I've run colinux, it provides you a console and a virtual network interface and that's about it. The console has some slow graphics.
The only one of those I know how to actually get you is to run Cygwin's OpenGL-equipped X server, and then use XDMCP to connect to your colinux VM.
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I can't wait to run WINE on it..
But can we please stop with the "I won't run Linux because of lack of games" statements because they are meaningless.
Firstly, nothing stops you dual-booting both Linux and Windows in order to understand some of the benefits Linux could potentially bring to you.
Secondly, the fact that there are so few modern games on Linux is not a fault of Linux itself. Yep, maybe it's because the Linux user base is much smaller than Windows and/or maybe it's because we Linux users are spoilt by getting so much software for free that we've forgotten how to pay for games, both are acceptable reasons to justify the fact that games companies won't port games to it. After all, games companies are businesses and if they see a way to make money, then they will do it.
Thirdly, if you're into modern graphics intensive games then, yes, it's probably a bad idea to use Linux. But software like DOSBox, Wine, countless platform emulators & Open Source games means that there is actually a *HUGE* catalogue of games you can play perfectly on Linux. Yes, that catalogue probably won't include Call Of Duty 4 but as you start going through the back catalogue of games, the further you go back the more ways you will find to play them on Linux.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Finally, the stability and security of Windows with the application availability of Linux.
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You're right, so your post is like fex, and when you post a second time you have feces.
But isn't that project you linked more like Wubi?
Instead of being a Windows port of the Linux kernel (yeah... weird) like and/coLinux is, it is a Windows based Linux installer, which stuffs the whole distro's file system into a single file in your Windows' partition.
There are a bunch of linux/x apps that I use at home I'd love to be able to use on my windows box at work. Think of stuff like Kate for text editing.
There are exactly 42,935,718 letter sized sheets in a square mile.
Whenever people hear a word that ends with "s" (or that sounds like it should), they assume that there's some silly grammatical rule that they need to know about. There is a rule, but it's so hard to follow, you shouldn't even try.
Here's the rule: a lot of words that end with "-us" (not all of them! more on that in a moment) are borrowed from Latin. In that language, a noun ending with "-us" is a singluar form (dominus, lord; servus, slave) that takes a plural form ending in "-i" (domini, lords; servi, slaves). In theory, it's more "correct" to use foreign inflections with foreign words. So instead of "octopuses", "styluses", and "circuses", people say "octopi", "styli", and "circi".
No, wait, nobody says "circi", do they? It's the "correct" usage, because it's a Latin word, but the established usage is "circuses".
The other examples I gave are commonly used, but are in no sense "correct". "Octopus" does not come from Latin: it's a Greek word, and the Greek plural is "octopods". "Stylus" is Latin, but it's misspelled Latin: the Romans spelled it "stilus". It got changed to "stylus" because somebody thought it was somehow derived from the Greek word "stylos". But it's not, so the "correct" way to refer to that thing that comes with your PDA is "stilus" and "stili".
But to heck with being "correct". It's the tar baby of the literate. Just use the rules you learned in grade school and be done with it.
it was though, a perfectly cromulent word.
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You know what I do these days is running Ubuntu inside a (seamless) virtual machine in Windows. Windows has to be native for the games, and it doesn't matter how often Windows is borked, the Ubuntu VM image is on a different partition and as soon as I've reinstalled windows I can load that image up and *boom* my entire desktop with all my sweet little apps are there again without reinstalling anything. Best of both worlds. The only thing better (aside from Linux supporting my games ;)) would be virtualizable graphics, so that I can run Linux native and Windows in a virtual machine.