Linux For Windows

[qwijibow 0]

Knoppix ha salways been a great demo for Windows users to have a peek at what linux is without having to format / repartion / install anything. But now with version 3.8 just released, its even better.

 

Shutdown your computer, and boot the cd, and you boot knoppix linux, just as you always have, with full desktop / word-processing / web browsing / games / everything.

 

but here's the new feature, insert the CD into a fully botted computer running Microsoft windows, and via auto-run Linux Boots in its own window from within Windows.

 

impressive ???

 

[miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0]

Impressive ?? That's probably the understatement of the year qwiji.. damn right it's IMPRESSIVE Now you can have best of both worlds together ...

[jipman 0]

Impressive, but quite useless, since the hardware has to operate 2 operating systems, that means that you run out of resources fast and that probably both OS'es will run slowly.Finally, I don't see the use of this all... The boot from cd function appeals more to me because it runs without touching the hardware and it does not have to share it's resources.ps. It is quite cool though.

[qwijibow 0]

The significance is that it allows you to be using Linux, but have windows to fall back on without having to re-boot.Once fully booted, knoppix tends to use about 60Megs of ram, thats nothing on modern computers.an athlon / pentium3 and 256 megs of ram and their wont be any prblems.ALSO, it will let people who dont know how ot alter the bios to boot from CD have a look.anyways.... Unreal TOurnement in Ascii art doesnt have much real use... but its still cool

[sourceanime 0]

i use virtual pc and i can set up any linux without mixing with windows OS

[arunkumarhg 0]

Hi,Its cool stuff to c, its realy amazing to get switch th OS with a single mouse click.

[musichere 0]

Also there is Ubuntu, which you can get for FREE from their site and they will ship it to you reasonably quickly all free.Furthermore there are the classic live versions of SuSE, Mandrake etc.

[thermoid 0]

Ok this is way cool and exactly what i've been looking for. Now i can run all the stuff I get from the OpenSource Community

[Trekkie101 0]

This will be ace for showing people the differences and values of linux. Good work I say. *Ponders hijacking school bootup

[Giniu 0]

almost all distributions have their LiveCD - also my favorite Slackware - it's Live dist is called Slax... some poeple don't like Slackware, but I love it for it's clean look and easy - logic - based on BSD-like scripts configuration... So I would add SlaX...and remember there is also one great improvment for old Linux users... you can go out with your distro wherever you want... to school, to work, to friends... with dog... wherever you want

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

I find running Linux on Windows is meaningless, your system will still crash all the time even if you have Linux running virtually.Best to over-write your Windows if you want to discover the great world of Linux.xboxrulz

[Giniu 0]

I just realized about what we are talking there, while title would suggest CygWin - real Linux for Windows, we are talking about Live CD, but why to run Live CD in emulation or VM, while this is why Live CD's were made for - to run system directly from CD... not from other system... so - Live CD's are very good thing when you want to test some Linux, but when you run it without Windows running