Even better than virtual machines, assuming it works as described.(I haven't 
tried it, but I'm about to! :-)

http://lifehacker.com/5195999/portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Even better than virtual machines, assuming it works as described.(I haven't
> tried it, but I'm about to! :-)
>
> http://lifehacker.com/5195999/portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows

2 days late. :)

This reminds me of people with humongous amounts of junk in their iPods,
constantly zapping, never stopping for a moment to appreciate any of it.  What
is the point?  Just to make the multicore hardware of today sweat we'll run
Linux from Windows from a VNC client from a java VM?

OTOH, it's tempting to get this one to work, might it be not a april fool's
prank... :)

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So what happens when you run WINE inside of this?  Then open this inside of 
that...just how far can you recurse these things?

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Even better than virtual machines, assuming it works as described.(I haven't 
> tried it, but I'm about to! :-)

> http://lifehacker.com/5195999/portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows

  The only unanswered question is why anyone would *want* to run linux
from windows.

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Warp wrote:
>   The only unanswered question is why anyone would *want* to run linux
> from windows.

Sure. All the *good* stuff from Linux has already been ported to native 
Windows. </troll>  ;-)

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nemesis wrote:
>  Just to make the multicore hardware of today sweat we'll
> run Linux from Windows from a VNC client from a java VM?

I once saw a full PC/x86 emulator as a Java applet. Took some minutes to
boot a basic Linux kernel and ate a lot of memory, but sure worked!

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>>  Just to make the multicore hardware of today sweat we'll
>> run Linux from Windows from a VNC client from a java VM?
> 
> I once saw a full PC/x86 emulator as a Java applet. Took some minutes to
> boot a basic Linux kernel and ate a lot of memory, but sure worked!

http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/DemoLinux.html

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Warp wrote:

>   The only unanswered question is why anyone would *want* to run linux
> from windows.

Typically because you want to quickly do something that's trivial under 
Linux, and you don't fancy spenting 4 weeks searching for an equivilent 
Windows tool to do the same thing.

(E.g., you try finding a tool that can compute the MD5 sums of all the 
files in a given folder and write them into a text file. Under Linux, 
this is trivial. Under Windows... well, there's a CLI tool that will 
compute the MD5 sum for *one* file, but you try scripting it to process 
several...)

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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> (E.g., you try finding a tool that can compute the MD5 sums of all the 
> files in a given folder and write them into a text file. Under Linux, this 
> is trivial. Under Windows... well, there's a CLI tool that will compute 
> the MD5 sum for *one* file, but you try scripting it to process 
> several...)

sfk can do that trivially.  used it on a whole tree.  unfortunately it 
doesn't like unicode characters in filenames, so it missed a few dozen.  :(

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:

> >   The only unanswered question is why anyone would *want* to run linux
> > from windows.

> Typically because you want to quickly do something that's trivial under 
> Linux, and you don't fancy spenting 4 weeks searching for an equivilent 
> Windows tool to do the same thing.

  Don't you mean equivalent?

  Anyways, my comment had a hint of "why would anyone want to run Windows
in the first place?"

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