[dba-Tech] Ubuntu Inside Windows

Hello Hans-Christian

You mean that you use Linux on your every day desktop?

If so, I envy you, I would love to be able to do that, but for 8 hours per
day I need

SSMS
VS2010

and maybe a few other MS based tools, it is the SSMS that I use most and I
could not really use an alternative.

I suppose if I can get a good RDP client for Linux I could switch to Linux
for most work, eg typing this email, and only RDP when I need Sql work.

thanks for the inspiration

Mark


On 27 October 2011 01:14, Hans-Christian Andersen
<hans.andersen at phulse.com>wrote:

> Arthur,
>
> I haven't ever tried this, since I haven't been using Windows for a desktop
> since 2005, but I think what you are referring to is
> Wubi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(Ubuntu_installer)>,
> which actually installs Ubuntu on your system in a file on your Windows
> partition, but, to my knowledge, you still need to reboot in order to boot
> into Ubuntu. I don't think it actually runs Ubuntu at the same time as
> Windows, like how a virtual machine works. It's still a dual-boot thing. I
> could be wrong though.
>
> I do know of some other distros that allow you to run Linux natively on
> Windows while it is running, much like a virtual machine, but its obviously
> faster. Have a look at coLinux <
> http://www.colinux.org/?section=screenshots>.
> I think you might even be able to run Ubuntu itself under coLinux, but
> might
> require a bit of configuration. Even cooler, there is another distro that
> allows the same thing, but instead of having a separate environment running
> through a window, it will actually just integrate Linux apps into your
> Windows environment, so it feels transparent. It's called
> andLinux<http://www.andlinux.org/>
> .
>
> Of course, these are fringe projects, so mileage may vary.
>
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> On 26 October 2011 14:01, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 using the "run in Windows" option and the
> > installation went well, but I'm not sure how to use it. No desktop icon
> was
> > installed; a look in All Programs doesn't show anything related to
> Ubuntu,
> > and a browse of the directory doesn't give me any indication of what to
> do.
> > Curiously, though, a look in Control Panel | Remove a Program shows it
> > listed there.
> >
> > Any idea what's going on, and what I should do to run it inside Windows?
> > (Besides VM, obviously. This install option allegedly doesn't need a VM.)
> > If
> > necessary, I'll re-install it as a VM inside VirtualBox.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Arthur
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