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Re: Linux Server
- From: Ratnesh Khandelwal <ratnesh at civil dot iisc dot ernet dot in>
- To: Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:01:20 +0530 (IST)
- Subject: Re: Linux Server
Good Evening Sir/Madam,
Thank you very much for your very helpful and informative answer to my
question. It is much appreciated.
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
> Gerrit P. Haase schrieb:
> > Ratnesh Khandelwal wrote:
> >> I have two partision of my Hard disk one for Linux and Other for
> >> Window.I want ot know if its possible to run linux server on window
> >> with full use of window application as most of the time i work on
> >> window application but for some urgengy i need to have my system as
> >> Linux Server.
>
> BTW: You are completely off topic here.
>
> > You cannot run Linux binaries on top of Cygwin.
> >
> > With Cygwin you may build Linux applications from source so that they
> > can be used inside Windows. If you need just some special applications
> > this may be what you want. To run 'real' Linux inside your Windows OS
> > you may want to take a look at colinux: http://colinux.org which is a
> > tool that enables you to boot a Linux kernel inside Windows and gives
> > access to native Linux binaries.
>
> And this colinux which runs in parallel is even faster than windows.
> So you don't have to reboot just to get a linux.
>
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