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Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register)Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register)Posted Apr 4, 2006 16:01 UTC (Tue) by socket (guest, #43)In reply to: Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register) by wjl Parent article: Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register)
Because you really do need a decent Linux environment to Get Stuff Done, but are required to use Windows by your employer for a variety of things. Cygwin just isn't the same, and dual-boot isn't an option. Why run Windows as the host? Because it was already set up, and doing a reinstall would've raised more eyebrows.
Ignore that VMWare and SuSE behind the curtain.
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Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register) Posted Apr 5, 2006 12:33 UTC (Wed) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link] I was going to post a comment along those lines, but you've saved me the trouble; cheers. :)
(We tend to use FC3 rather than SuSE, but other than that pretty much the same situation.)
Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register) Posted Apr 5, 2006 18:12 UTC (Wed) by rmn30 (guest, #36960) [Link] Another possibility for Linux under windows is Cooperative Linux [http://www.colinux.org/ ] which I experimented with a while back. No GUI support but then its always possible to use a windows X server (e.g. xorg with cygwin) and X forwarding.
Robert
Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register) Posted Apr 5, 2006 19:43 UTC (Wed) by efexis (guest, #26355) [Link] coLinux isn't virtualisation really though. This does mean you can get much better performance under it, but it doesn't offer the same protection (eg, the "guest" machine can corrupt the memory of the host, hanging it and any other running guest machines).
Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register) Posted Apr 7, 2006 7:10 UTC (Fri) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link] Yes, but only as root, so user programs have as much chance of doing it as any user program on a native linux machine (which implies an OS critical bug or security flaw).
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