[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rigel wrote:
Is there any form of GNU linux emulator that I can get for Windows
XP, that would let me create a virtual machine for running Linux
apps? I think this would be cool, until I can switch OS's confidently.
Rigel
Well, there's Cygwin (just google for it) but unless you're really
tight for hard-drive space I would just set up a dual-boot situation.
That way you have completely separate and complete installations of
both XP and Linux. I have an 80 gig drive that I partitioned into 3
roughly equal parts -- one is ntfs for XP, another is ext3 for Linux,
and the third is fat32 for data that can be accessed from either OS.
Drives are so darn cheap nowadays that you can easily do this sort of
thing for $50 or less.
I don't really trust the emulator idea much. If something isn't
working the way it should or the way you think it ought to, how would
you really know where the trouble lies?
Rod
Is Cygwin really an emulator? I mean, isn't it more like a dependences
thing, like with libraries and stuff, like GTK? I think what he's
asking about is something like VitrualPC on Mac, where your desktop
changes (or it can be in a window) and you're actually running Windows
on top of your Mac OS X. Cygwin doesn't change your desktop. You don't
experience anything close to Linux, you just can run some (very few)
Linux programs.
If you don't want to go the Live CD route (which is probably the best,
as it requires no setup whatsoever, just download an ISO file - which is
a disc image file - then burn it onto a CD, put the CD in your CD-ROM
drive, and reboot the computer - whala - instant Linux!), then you can
try this website:
http://opensource.region-stuttgart.de/test_linux_desktop.php
It runs Linux inside of a browser window.
http://www.workspot.com/
This website does the same thing. I think it is more up to date, but
it's only a free trial for a few minutes, but it doesn't require a
download, like the first one does if you don't use IE.
I hope that helps!
-Chad Smith
