Paper Info
Title
Using coLinux to provide a linux environment on windows PC in public computer labs
Abstract
There are many requests from teachers to computer lab management staff in universities. The most annoying one is that both the Windows and Linux environment are required. To satisfy such a request, a dual-boot system is widely used. But on a dual-boot system, students must wait for minutes to switch between Windows and Linux. And management staff has to repeat the boot and shutdown process to apply patches to both operating systems. To provide both operating systems' environment simultaneously, we have decided to use coLinux to run Linux as a Windows application, and installed it in our PC classroom. coLinux, Cooperative Linux, is an open-source, lightweight solution, as compared to full virtualization techniques such as VMware or Virtual PC. Cygwin could be another solution, but it has some restrictions against the full capability of Linux such as process management. coLinux enables both native Linux applications and Windows applications to run simultaneously on the screen. Our solution also avoids incompatibility problems that sometimes occur between Microsoft Office on Windows and Office suites on Linux.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1181216.1181266
SIGUCCS
Keywords
Field
DocType
native linux application,operating system,computer lab management staff,management staff,cooperative linux,lightweight solution,windows pc,linux environment,process management,windows application,public computer lab,dual-boot system,satisfiability
Linux Unified Key Setup,Microsoft Windows,Windows NT,GNU/Linux,Computer science,Binary code compatibility,SquashFS,Operating system,Windows Vista,Linux kernel,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-438-3
3
0.72
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hideo Masuda12510.27
Michio Nakanishi23411.90
Akinori Saitoh372.90
Seigo Yasutome4143.35