[coLinux-users] Re: Which distribution?

[grv575 g. <gr...@ho...>]

Does it make a difference performance-wise whether you use a root filesystem 
which is a windows file or instead use an existing linux partition?

I do the latter and have setup Xming and get quite acceptable KDE 
performance.  Also, launching just CodeBlocks (a relatively new 
cross-platformIDE) under Xming multiwindow mode gives me better 
responsiveness than the same application under windows (both compiled 
against same wxWidgets version and options and compiled with gcc - mingw gcc 
on windows - in both cases).

Of course you will see some speed degradation compared to native Linux since 
Xming uses TCP sockets to communicate.  But do keep in mind that colinux 
runs in kernel mode which is much faster than a user mode implementation but 
shared with running windows processes.  In any case I find myself running 
multiwindow mode most often and then launching graphical utilities like 
Kdiff3 all the time with no complaints about speed, so I would not limit 
colinux to a commandline Linux utility  (in fact it seems that native X 
support is planned for future Colinux releases if I'm not mistaken).

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