Topic: Ya Ya Ya....linux, But What About Windows?! (Read 67 times)

Heretic · « **Reply #1 on:** March 24, 2003, 07:47:00 AM »

you can only emulate windows with something like plex86 bochs or other virtual pc software.

phantazma1 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 24, 2003, 08:31:00 AM »

use wine on linux..lol

nazis X. · « **Reply #3 on:** March 24, 2003, 09:02:00 AM »

QUOTE (bagel5009 @ Mar 24 2003, 03:58 PM)

id really like to have windows on my system, thad be l33t, i havent been in this section too much, so dont flame me

You've been around for about 4 or 5 months and have a post count like yours, but you don't know the answer to a simple question like yours?
Unix, and its derivatives (like Linux), are open-source. Meaning the programming code for the OS is freely availabe. With the source code, it can be modified to run natively on any system, provided a competent programmer wants to go through the effort. Windows, on the other hand, is closed-source, meaning only the owner of the licence has the source code. Therefore, short of virtualization or emulation, Windows will NOT run on a non-PC platform, and even with the two mentioned methods, it wouldn't be native.

Col.Havoc · « **Reply #4 on:** March 24, 2003, 01:15:00 PM »

Bagel, one other way of running windows is to have VMware running on linux, and then run windows in linux. Problem is, ram. You need the original 64 to run linux, then Windows will need it's ram too.

The only Windows to run that way would be 95, and we all know how outdated that is, unless you have a ram upgrade in your xbox.

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