Re: [coLinux-users] suggestion: linux runtime environment

[Michael R. <mic...@fr...>]

Oscar Usifer wrote:
> Not sure there is a good bridge for this, or what exactly the function of it would be. You might be able to share file systems, but running Linux apps on Windows seamlessly is sort of a VM thing.
A virtual machine isn`t best choice. It`s good to have a virtual 
computer where you can do testings and so on or if you want to sell 
virtual servers or you have a old mailserver or whatever and want all 
apps in it`s own virtual computer.

But virtual machines are not that good for guis and so on. Them are a 
bit to slow and integration with other devices such as printers is not 
so good yet. Them are also slow. I guess if the developers of this 
project would have been happy with vmware/virtualbox them wouldn`t have 
started this project which goes another way then virtualisation (them 
chose porting).

> Can you explain better what kind of integration your shooting for?
I think colinux is great software and vision is to have it in a useful 
and more easy state also for normal users. Currently it`s hard to set up 
and the integration is not so good.

Features I am thinking of you are downloading 'linux runtime 
environment', install it... Then go to some website and download some 
.deb or .rpm package, save it on desktop, double click it and it will be 
installed, then you can start it directly from windows. Or open a 
terminal and type apt-get install whatever.

Colinux provides this functions already "nearly".

If I think right this would also simplify other developers live. 
Example, you program some office suite using C++ and Qt or GTK, compile 
it for linux and create a .deb package, you`re done. No more need to 
compile it under windows because windows gets the function to run also 
linux apps because the kernel (and some more goodies) got ported.