andLinux - Linux and windows kernel merged into one seamless desktop

[notwen]

Some of you may misunderstand. It's not for Linux users. It's made for Windows users. It's kind of like putting a Linux compatibility layer in Windows so they can run our software.

Windows users actually wanting to run Linux software? Isn't that normally the other way around? =p

[Dark_X]

Windows users actually wanting to run Linux software? Isn't that normally the other way around? =p

Actually I really wish I could run linux programs in windows. To bad this doesn't work with 64 bit.

[oskarloko]

Well, in my work I'm using Xp; but I wanted to use and test Linux. The servers are Debian or Solaris, so I want a *NIX enviorment to test server installations.

I've tried VirtualBox and VMPlayer, both are great ( I like the first more, but they've their strengths and weakness )
But AndLinux have conviced me.

It's a coLinux Ubuntu; a VM of Linux totally integrated into a Windows system.
Easy to install, runs as a service ( automatically or manual ), with rootless apps. Synaptic, console, Firefox, Thunar without problem.
The speed and performance are impressive.

See more:
Wikipedia ( sorry, only spanish and german for now )
Life Hacker
SlashDot

As more adaptable is Linux, more will be used and expanded.

Pd. later I also tried Wubi to make a non-destructive linux install, I like it a lot, too.

[angry_johnnie]

It's pretty good, actually. I just installed it yesterday, and i must say I'm impressed with it. Whether we like it or not, some people have to use Windows for whatever reasons, and this gives us a very good, extremely functional, alternative. I had tried kde4 for Windows and Cygwin before, but AndLinux is much better.

[K.Mandla]

Moved to Other OS Talk.

[Calash]

It looks very intersting, as noted above it seems more like Wne than a Virtual Machine.

Downloading to my Work computer now

[imT]

not tempting, probably will catch on newbies.

[finferflu]

I don't think it's for newbies. I think it's more oriented towards developers and people who actually need Windows for working. I think so far this is the best idea I have seen. I would prefer it the other way round though, allowing people to use Linux Window Managers (perhaps it's even possible) for example. In general I prefer the Unix environment much more than the Windows one.
I'm hopefully not gonna need it, but I'm impressed anyway

[pelle.k]

not tempting, probably will catch on newbies.

I don't think so. Wubi, yes, but coLinux/andLinux, no.
This is really cool though. I read up on coLinux a while ago, and the only catch back then was that that it was *complicated* to set up, so this is certainly a welcome surprise. At last i can run amarok and bash in windows.

[Calash]

It took a bit to get it to start up...it decided to run a disk check on my Windows partition when it first boot.

From what I can tell, it is a service in the background that loads a Linux kernel that is then accessed by the applications. It installed a network device that is used by the apps for X.

Once booted everything runs very quickly, and there is a good amount of integration with the Windows OS via a SAMBA share. I still have not gotten it to connect to the network yet.

I do not see much use for it though, be a developer or web designer could get some good function from it.


Edit: Just got it on our work network. Had to put our DNS server into the config and the correct proxy address.