A Virtualized Linux System For Windows 280
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.
As opposed to... andLinux? (Score:5, Informative)
np: Saul Williams - Grippo (Saul Williams)
Near native performance (Score:5, Informative)
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 [wikipedia.org]
Most are native or near native.
Re:As opposed to... andLinux? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:As opposed to... andLinux? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:As opposed to... andLinux? (Score:5, Informative)
I hear so little about coLinux, I feel like it's one of Linux's best kept secrets. It's cool that we're starting to see meta-distributions based upon it.
Re:Just wondering (Score:3, Informative)
Cecil Adams has an interesting discussion of Latin/English pluralizations hidden in a discussion of the proper plural of penis [straightdope.com].
Re:Can it use your 3d card? stuff on the usb ports (Score:5, Informative)
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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Re:As opposed to... andLinux? (Score:4, Informative)
KDE in windows is going to be the better bet down the road for a lot of stuff, because you have to leap through fewer hoops with the filesystem, at least as far as most applications are concerned.
It's kinda amazing being able to get an awful lot of stuff just running apt-get from a terminal, while inside XP. A real VM is far secure of course. Security decent hardware firewalls and no small amount of obscurity doesn't bother me too horible.
I don't know... (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:As opposed to... andLinux? (Score:4, Informative)
Texmaker (Score:3, Informative)
Re:As opposed to... andLinux? (Score:1, Informative)
me:me
root:root
Re:Mirrors? (Score:3, Informative)
offtopic - Re:Just wondering (Score:2, Informative)
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