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Install coLinux (and Ubuntu Hardy) on Win XP using Slirp to internet and TAP to host behind a corporate firewall/proxy server

l Date: 2008-04-14 | Modified: 2008-09-07 | Tags: colinux, cygwin, linux, softwaretools, ubuntu, wmii | 3 Comments

coLinux allows you to run a full Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu Hardy, on top of Windows at near native speeds. It runs as a single Windows process with its own specially allocated address space. The guest linux system can run from either a separate disk partition or from a single file on your Windows filesystem.

My initial impression of coLinux was so positive, I had planned to name this post, Goodbye Cygwin, hello coLinux. After 2 months of using coLinux, I still am using Cygwin a little bit. Despite being slow, (almost unbearably slow with my company's mandatory ...

My software tools list

l Date: 2007-08-10 | Modified: 2010-05-28 | Tags: android, c_cplusplus, colinux, conkeror, cygwin, django, eclipse, emacs, git, hardware, keyboard, linux, mercurial, preferences, python, softwaretools, subversion, ubuntu, urxvt, wide, wmii | 6 Comments

Inspired by Mark Pilgrim's 2006 Essentials list, below is a list of my current software tools. If you notice a lot of "I switched from ..." statements, keep in mind that I am a programmer who likes shiny things.