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Run Windows and Linux without virtualization

linux.com — Linux does everything that many users want it to, but some people have tasks that require Windows applications. You can dual-boot both operating systems, or run Windows in a virtualized environment on Linux. Alas, virtualization makes the guest OS almost useless for processor- and RAM-intensive tasks like editing videos and playing games.

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  • jbmartinez, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6a very interesting project, but I think it's better to keep improving wine to bring windows apps to a stable Linux environment rather than porting a whole Linux distro to a crappy OS. Just my two cents.
  • Wiini, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2I tried it (the last time colinux made it's way around digg sigh) and it really did work well. The only draw back was my machine really took a MAJOR performance hit. Whatever you do, don't check the box that allows it to start at boot or you'll have to go make dinner before you see your desktop.
  • jflowers45, on 04/15/2008, -1/+2"The coLinux project takes a stable release of the Linux kernel and ports it to run on Windows."
    nice find. dugg!
  • Kingoftherings, on 04/15/2008, -1/+1Looks awesome, I love K3B, and a lot of other Linux apps and this is perfect.
    The only problem is I'm running Vista x64, and it only supports 32-bit Vista, I'll look into it, and worse comes to worse I can just install a fresh copy of Vista x86.

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