Linux and Windows

Content

• Windows interoperability tools in Linux
  • Lightweight solutions
  • Heavyweight solutions
• GNU tools in Windows
  • Lightweight solutions
  • Heavyweight solutions

Windows interoperability tools in Linux

Test Linux desktop online

Lightweight solutions

• Closed source apps and Microsoft fonts
• Windows file system utilities
• Wine implementation of Win32 API, check application compatablility with Wine
• Samba file server

Heavyweight solutions

• Virtualbox
• Free Windows virtual machines

GNU tools in Windows

Lightweight solutions

• Putty SSH client
• Cygwin GNU tools
• Bash on Windows

Heavyweight solutions

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (paravirtualization)
• VirtualBox