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I was woundering if there was a way where I could just pop the cd in, make a shortcut somewhere, and in that shortcut, have windows terminate and when that happens spawn DSL.
Distribution: anything debian based, long live apt-get
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theres a program called vmware that lets you boot up an operating system inside windows... its available on liunx as well...you may be able to find open source alternatvies like QEMU ...but it is a really great program.....i'm not supporting piracy, but you can find vmware on bittorrent search engines on the internet for free, though illegal...
You may want to try Cooperative Linux (I would post the link, but this is my first and I'm currently banned from linking ). I have it running on top of XP, and it has full internet access by utilizing XP's shared connection feature. There are also several different distro's available (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, I think). I'm not sure how much work would be needed to get DSL to work or whether you could just strip down a Debian install...
VMWare have got a free player so you don't need a fully fledged copy of VMWare to run a guest OS. Then all you need is a DSL image which someone has already created.
This is all free and its a great way of testing DSL stuff under windows (if you've got the memory, etc).
Interesting stuff. I use VMWare at work to try things out in different linux/unix snapshots. Also, our products need to be tested across platforms. It is extremely useful but really comes down to how many platforms are adequately supported and they've got to be stable.
At first glance looks like QEMU supports more platforms but I would expect more development to have gone into it. The usual suspects.
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). I have it running on top of XP, and it has full internet access by utilizing XP's shared connection feature. There are also several different distro's available (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, I think). I'm not sure how much work would be needed to get DSL to work or whether you could just strip down a Debian install...
