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Date:	Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:13:54 +0100
From:	Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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To:	Ratnesh Khandelwal <ratnesh AT civil DOT iisc DOT ernet DOT in>
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Subject:	Re: Linux Server
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Gerrit P. Haase schrieb:
> Ratnesh Khandelwal wrote:
>> I have two partision of my Hard disk one for Linux and Other for 
>> Window.I want ot know if its possible to run linux server on window 
>> with full use of window application as most of the time i work on 
>> window application but for some urgengy i need to have my system as 
>> Linux Server.

BTW: You are completely off topic here.

> You cannot run Linux binaries on top of Cygwin.
> 
> With Cygwin you may build Linux applications from source so that they
> can be used inside Windows.  If you need just some special applications
> this may be what you want.  To run 'real' Linux inside your Windows OS
> you may want to take a look at colinux: http://colinux.org which is a
> tool that enables you to boot a Linux kernel inside Windows and gives
> access to native Linux binaries.

And this colinux which runs in parallel is even faster than windows.
So you don't have to reboot just to get a linux.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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