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Geek Culture / Windows and Linux on the same computer!

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Kequor
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Posted: 8th May 2004 01:02 Edited at: 8th May 2004 01:02
I herd that some whiz in Israel made a program that lets you use Windows and Linux on the same computer. Do's anyone know were I can find this?

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Dark Wolf
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Posted: 8th May 2004 01:08
The program for that is called Knoppix I think its a download just go to goolge and search for it its a free download but its a huge one

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Posted: 8th May 2004 01:09
And like most Linux's it cant handle the latest hardware...


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Kequor
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Posted: 8th May 2004 01:11
Thanks guys!

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Peter H
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Posted: 8th May 2004 01:23
i don't know... it seems like if you let windows get too close to linux it would commit murder


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Posted: 8th May 2004 01:26
And whats wrong with that ?


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the_winch
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Posted: 8th May 2004 01:26
I think you might be talking about this http://www.colinux.org/.

You can also duel boot windows and linux on the same computer easily enough.

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Lord Ozzum
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Posted: 8th May 2004 01:28
nothing TCA

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Posted: 8th May 2004 01:30
yeah-dual boot is like super easy, especially since linux doesn't care where it resides on the disk/partition like windows does.


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Posted: 8th May 2004 01:55
DO you have the TV station TechTV? It was on about a day ago. Not just Knoppix... something else. Goto http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/index.html/. Should have a link somewhere on the site. Its really nice.
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Posted: 8th May 2004 05:11
Having Linux and windows on the same computer is no great feat. I can boot SuSE Linux or Win XP at start up. SuSE lets you shrink your windows partition to make room for it, and is also able to read NTFS (windows file system) and read/write FAT32 and FAT16

If you want to run windows stuff in Linux, you can use wine or winex (for directx type stuff).

Similarly, if you want to run linux stuff in windows you can use cygwin.

Neither of these are really that new.

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