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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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shell accounts but they are all BSD:
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 t.maiden AT att.net wrote:

> I am looking for a downloadable version of Linux that will run on a Windows 
> XP machine as a guest of XP.  I found 2 that looked promising at first, 
> CoLinux and DragonLinux, but each had difficulties that made them 
> impractical.  I suspect the problems stem with the way XP has been 
> re-developed from earlier Windows.  All the PCs I have to work with are XP.  
> These PCs have been setup in a way that makes them impossible to reboot from 
> a floppy drive or the CD-ROM drive.  The college doesn't want us students 
> messing with them, but being able to run some kind of Linux on them would be 
> handy.  I am taking a UNIX/Linux System Admin. class...



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