Run Linux on Windows with coLinux (with original download)

What is coLinux ?

"If Linux runs on every architecture, why should another operating system be in its way? "

Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, without using a commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC virtualization software. In its current condition, it allows us to run the KNOPPIX Japanese Edition on Windows

Screenshots

This screenshot shows a booted coLinux system right after the launch of the coLinux daemon. The coLinux console window is a separate process that attaches to the running coLinux daemon.

This shows the coLinux system running twm and rxvt xclients across the virtual network link with Windows. On the left you can see the Cygwin XFree86 server. On the right, you can see the dialog box of the Virtual Win32 TAP network interface.

a Knoppix Japanese Edition ISO image (english), and with very little bootstrapping, caused it to boot under coLinux. In the screenshot above you can see a Japanese KDE desktop running from Knoppix under coLinux, a Mozilla window, konsole, konqueror, the FLTK-based coLinux console, and the Windows Task Manager showing the CPU consumption of the coLinux daemon so far.

Two Mozilla windows.

DOWNLOAD the latest version 

coLinux-0.7.9.exe (7.3 MB)

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