OpenEuphoria

Re: OT: CoLinux revisited (was Re: Idea List: #0002)

• Posted by ags <eu at 531pi.co.nz> Feb 06, 2006
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info and this does sound interesting.
> Im not asking this stuff just to be able to 'have' Linux, per se,
> but to be able to have a Linux system in which to program Euphoria
> stuff of course 

Of course 

> So i guess what you are saying is that the file system that Linux uses
> would possibly get corrupted, so that wouldnt affect my Windows installation
> then would it?  In other words, if that problem did occur, i would still
> be able to boot to Windows and use it as i always did without refreshing
> any part of the hard drive, right?

That's right.

> I guess then if i wanted to continue to use Linux i would have to
> refresh that file, right?  Or reinstall something?

Yep.  Just that file.

> I'd like to try some more Euphoria programming on Linux but of
> course i have to have some sort of Linux installation first, so
> this sounds like a candidate.

Definitely.  For programming you would probably have to have an X Windows
setup going.  I find it best to VNC to the X system rather than have an
X client running on top of windows (far too many levels of emulation going
on there IMHO).

Of course there are other drawbacks to an 'emulated' linux environment (though
it's not strictly an emulation, it's the real thing with a few bits cut off).
Namely if you are interested in doing stuff with direct hardware access then
you might run into trouble like not being able to access the hardware you
want.  In general, if Windows is using it, coLinux can't (eg Video Memory,
serial ports, etc).  But you can access whole disks if they are disabled in
Windows.  Try having a look through the Wiki for FAQs etc.  wiki.colinux.org

Gary