05-25-2015, 03:12 PM | #1 |
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Linux enviroment
Sorry for a little off topic but is there some program like wine to linux but for windows? So linux enviroment running in a virtual machine on windows.
I'm boring trying to experiment with package on windows only to see that some weird/standar option from linux don't work correctly on windows. And no, I don't have/want a linux installation, I'm happy ( ?) with windows. Also, I don't like a liveCD |
05-25-2015, 03:39 PM | #2 |
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There's Cygwin, but you may need to compile the programs.
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05-25-2015, 05:21 PM | #3 |
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VMware player
The equivalent from Oracle but I don't remember it's name. |
05-25-2015, 06:29 PM | #4 |
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VirtualBox.
Or you can use MS's Virtual PC. |
05-25-2015, 06:37 PM | #5 |
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VirtualBox ^
Oh. That'll teach me to be quicker.-) |
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05-25-2015, 06:43 PM | #6 |
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Thanks to all. I will try with they
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05-25-2015, 06:44 PM | #7 |
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05-26-2015, 12:56 AM | #8 |
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There is a thing called CoLinux.
Check it out, that's the closest you can get to how Wine does things. |
05-26-2015, 06:53 AM | #9 | |
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I personally use Oracle VirtualBox. Another high quality commercial virtual machine. In the past I have also used Quemu virtual machine - an open source one. For a quick experiment with Linux you do not have to install linux inside such virtual machine. You simply download a fully configured virtual disk with a chosen Linux distribution already installed (you have to do it this way with VMWare player). I personally would recommend xfce version of Mint Linux 17 [Rebeca]. xfce is less demanding desktop environment, when compared to Gnome [in Mint found under name Cinnamon] or KDE environment. Just google up "mint linux image for virtualbox" With relatively recent processor and enough memory this is least problematic solution - you just play and when you break something you can return to the original image and go again. If you want to do programming or play with Linux utitities, there are several frameworks that bring various Linux utilities to Windows. The most popular of those is Cygwin. Cygwin is in some regards similar to Wine under Linux, you just can't run native Linux binaries - you have to have compiled Cygwin version of the Linux program. But, you can run your favorite Linux programs (such as sed, awk, vim, even KDE) alongside windows programs and not inside a virtual machine. |
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05-26-2015, 10:46 AM | #10 |
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05-26-2015, 05:39 PM | #11 |
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05-27-2015, 06:02 AM | #12 |
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05-27-2015, 06:35 AM | #13 |
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I'm curious what the problem is with a LiveCD? It's undoubtedly the easiest solution.
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05-27-2015, 08:35 AM | #14 |
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Not if you wish to interact with Windows programs too.
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