I am in windows-land with the extended family so I have been playing around with this:
This is really really cool actually, and is based on colinux and gives you basically an ubuntu (gutsy 7.10) layer in windows. It actually works great and is quite quite fast. I installed the xfce version, and used cofs instead of samba to mount the win partition. Pulseaudio and/or ESD is not working for me, but if you are in windows, are you really going to use a linux app to listen to music or watch videos? I don't think so.
Quite interesting though and works suprisingly well. Note this is not a VM, and you doesn't use cygwin etc. You basically have a linux co-system running as an NT service right next to your windows. It's really great - i can fire up screen and irssi in windows w/o cygwin or vm- very very cool! I am thoroughly impressed.
Anyway this is really just a diversion for me, and for most real linux users I would think- but if you have a dedicated Windows box, you can always throw this on there too to run a few "can't do w/o unix apps"!
I'd be interested in any feedback if anyone wants to try it out..
Jon
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