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Written by Clint Christopher Canada
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Colinux allows windows users to test out linux without dual booting or using virtualization software.
Have you ever wanted to try out linux on your wiindows xp laptop, but cannot afford to create a new partition? Does your boss not allow you the luxury of installing linux on your windows machine? Look no further; there is a distribution that's exactly for you. Colinux runs on ring 0 of windows, allowing it to share resources with it and runs at full native speed unlike virtual machine implementations like vmware or qemu/bochs.
Here are some screenshots taken from an HP DV5000 (1.46Ghz, 512MB RAM) laptop:
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Figure 1: Colinux is running an apache2 server. Good for test servers.
Figure 2: Colinux vnc KDE session opening up KDE Control Center
Figure 3: Colinux Resources. Background running gambas, apache, mysql, php, etc.
The host linux OS running is debian sarge 3.1, running a 2.6.11 kernel. Upon testing, colinux handled a whole php site without any problems in load or instabilities in Windows XP. In fact, the configuration beat Ubuntu with the same server configuration on a desktop standalone linux workstation, with ubuntu failing under moderate workloads (php script used is quite resource intensive and uses up to more than 32MB of ram per execution). Goes to show that debian sarge is more suited for production server environments.
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