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Linux in webbrowser

Oct 21, 2005 5:32AM PDT

Hey i was watching the digg nation video cast threw itunes and they stated that there is a way for a windows machine to go on this website and tryout linux in a webbrowser. Can anyone shine some light on this. If anyone can send me link that will be very helpfull i am thinking of switching i need to try out help me out plz send me link.

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Do you mean...
Oct 22, 2005 12:50PM PDT

I haven?t heard anything about Linux in a web browser. Sounds interesting, though. Do you mean a Java based VNC client that can access a Linux box?

I hope you find what you are looking for. If you don?t and you still want to try Linux, I would suggest Knoppix, which allows you to try Linux without making any changes to your computer?s hard drive (it also contains a few good tools for troubleshooting Windows boxes).

Hope you find what you are looking for. Let us know if you do.

-Chris

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Workspot
Oct 23, 2005 1:43PM PDT
www.workspot.com at the top and center of the page. Use 800x600, unless you have a 19 inch screen or larger. It connects to Mandrake Linux which is not what ALL versions of Linux will look like, but close!
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better than workspace
Oct 23, 2005 6:52PM PDT

If you go to freeoszoo.org you can download and install a virtual machine emulator called qemu and image files (virtual hard drives) of LOTS of potential open source OSs; many versions of GNU/Linux, all the BSDs, and a couple others.

Once you have qemu installed you can also create a virtual hard drive and install an OS onto it from cd (say you wanted to run a virtual windows server). Basically it is kind of a fun toy.

A word of warning: qemu is very slow and will eat up your computer's resources. You cannot do much else at the same time. However, this is the way to go to test potential OS's.

Good Luck!