Archive for December 21st, 2005

Cooperative Linux

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Another way to run Linux under Windows.

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.

It is currently geared towards KNOPPIX Japanese Edition. You may need to make some modifications to your distribution of choice to get everything working. See their wiki for more details. Also see The Slackware on coLinux HOWTO which contains some information that is useful for other distributions as well. Gentoo users should check out this thread.