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Introduction to coLinux: Linux on Windows, Literally

Written By
SY
Serdar Yegulalp
May 16, 2007

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Stride
for this link. ]

“Most of us by now are familiar with the concept of running one
operating system inside another through the use of a virtual
machine system, or running multiple operating systems side-by-side
through a hypervisor solution. But let’s assume for a moment that
you don’t have the resources to do such a thing–you only have one
computer, running Windows, and you don’t have the freedom to
dual-boot or run virtualization. Under such difficult
circumstances, it doesn’t seem possible to run Linux at all, does
it…?”


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Serdar Yegulalp

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