Ulteo Virtual Desktop: Running GNU/Linux in Windows
2008 is shaping up to be the year that GNU/Linux hit the Windows desktop. Already the year has seen the first working version of the KDE Windows project, Wubi, which installs Ubuntu to an existing Windows filesystem, and LiveUSB Creator, a wizard for installing the Fedora distribution to a flashdrive from within Windows.
Last week, this effort was joined by the beta of Ulteo Virtual Desktop (UVD), which adds a complete KDE desktop to Windows XP or Vista. While rough around the edges, UVD seems by far the most successful of these efforts to give Windows users an easy way of experimenting with GNU/Linux.
Ulteo is the latest project of Gael Duval, the co-founder of the Mandrake distribution (now called Mandriva). First announced 18 months ago, Ulteo has shown some intriguing approaches to simplifying the GNU/Linux user experience. These include the self-updating Ulteo Application System distribution and the Ulteo Online Desktop for those who frequently use multiple computers.
With UVD, Duvall and his company take an equally innovative approach to running on Windows, using technology borrowed from Cooperative Linux that converts Linux system calls to Windows ones, a process that allows UVD to run on a Windows desktop and interact closely with Windows applications.
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