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Lina: Run Linux aps on Windows or OS X, or at least one Linux app
by Brad Linder Mar 23rd 2008 at 1:00PM
Lina definitely shows a lot of promise. It creates a system that will let you install and run custom binaries on any operating system. But right now there's a grand total of one custom binary available. And it's Nano, a simple text editor.
Meanwhile, several other projects have popped up over the last year that let you run Linux applications on Windows. There's andLinux which basically allows you to run a version of Ubuntu from within Windows, allowing you to run any application that can run on Ubuntu. And there's KDE for Windows, which lets you install and run a number of applications designed to run on the KDE desktop environment for Linux. Right now, you can run far more applications using either of these methods than you can with Lina. But we plan to keep checking up on Lina to see if the tool starts to live up to its promise in the future. Thanks to DailyApps for reminding us to check in on Lina's progress this time around.
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Phil Glockner said 6:38PM on 3-23-2008
What about Cygwin? It's been around forever and has hundreds of standard Linux apps already compiled for it. As a bonus you can use its ftp and ssh server under windows with hardly any special configuration.
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Bryan Price said 6:42PM on 3-23-2008
It'd be nice if andLinux actually worked for me. I installed, I rebooted, and the console when I start it says stuff, but nothing that I can see that would let me debug it to get any further in the booting process. :(
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Michael Chenetz said 8:48PM on 3-23-2008
I think the biggest advantage of OpenLina, and the main reason that I am interested in it, is that it enables cross platform application development in a single environment. So, If I compile and app on one Lina Host system, it will run on all other systems (OSX, Linux, etc... ) without recompilation. This is very advantageous for many reasons. Alot of the other solutions provided a way to compile or run Linux apps on an alternate OS, but would not maintain the same running platform accross all OS.
- Mike
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peegee said 9:53PM on 3-23-2008
What about coLinux? (andLinux is based on this). I have installed coLinux on an ancient PIII/650 MHz machine running WinXP home. I happily run HylaFax on it and it is working great!
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