Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux
Lina: Run Linux aps on Windows or OS X, or at least one Linux app
by Brad Linder Mar 23rd 2008
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.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
