[Ilugc] Re: .a-tip-a-day. (cygwin - POSIX environment on Windows)
- From: mohan43u@xxxxxxxxx (Mohan R)
- Date: Wed Nov 18 00:31:20 2009
Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
There is a way out.
You can install Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com
Seems there are lot of ways to use linux in Windows, and here is another
way,
QemuManager + LinuxFromScratch(with OpenSSH) + Putty.
We can download QemuManager from here, No need to install in WindowsXP.
Just unzip and run it.
http://www.davereyn.co.uk/qem/qman60.zip
LinuxFromScratch LiveCD is available in the following link, its 222MB
iso with full GNU Development Environment(with Documentation). No X.
ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86_64-6.3-r2145-min.iso
Finally here is the link to download putty,
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe
QemuManager is a novice frontend for 'qemu' and most of the 'qemu'
options are available graphically. Just map the lfslivecd image to CDROM
drive and select booting from CDROM. you are good to go into a
virtualized Linux with all the tools to compile other source tarballs.
To access lfslivecd through putty, we need to open an unprivileged host
port(35000) in windows and map that port to lfslivecd's ssh port(22)
using redir facility in QemuManager.
Also it has a lot of 'man pages' and 'info' files which will help a
person to get femiliar with the true linux(or maybe unix, I don't know
whether girish will accept this statement or not, but I hope he will try
atleast one time to see what I'm saying).
Cheers,
Mohan R.
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