TopologiLinux is a free Linux distribution

Linux distribution

A Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications...

 to be run on or inside an existing Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 system. The main feature of TopologiLinux is that it does not require any partitioning. It is based on Slackware

Slackware

Slackware is a free and open source Linux-based operating system. It was one of the earliest operating systems to be built on top of the Linux kernel and is the oldest currently being maintained. Slackware was created by Patrick Volkerding of Slackware Linux, Inc. in 1993...

 and coLinux

Cooperative Linux

Cooperative Linux, abbreviated as coLinux, is software which allows Microsoft Windows and the Linux kernel to run simultaneously in parallel on the same machine....

 (Cooperative Linux

Cooperative Linux

Cooperative Linux, abbreviated as coLinux, is software which allows Microsoft Windows and the Linux kernel to run simultaneously in parallel on the same machine....

). TopologiLinux has been chosen as one of nine open-source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 projects used as principal examples in a study of the characteristics of open-source software (Gacek and Budi 2004).

Usage

TopologiLinux creates one hard disk image and other related files in a directory "/tlinux*" (where * represents the version number of TopologiLinux) on a chosen drive using Windows. TopologiLinux cannot be set up through DOS. The user may boot the system through coLinux on Windows or directly on the computer by booting with the TopologiLinux CD/DVD.

Storage system

TopologiLinux creates a hard disk image file on an NTFS

NTFS

NTFS is the standard file system of Windows NT, including its later versions Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7....

 or FAT

File Allocation Table

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 partition.

Usage on Windows

TopologiLinux uses coLinux to run on Windows; because of the cooperative design of coLinux, it is possible to work on Windows and Linux side by side.

External links

• TopologiLinux Main Website
• TopologiLinux website on SourceForge.net
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• TopologiLinux page on DistroWatch
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See also

• coLinux
  Cooperative Linux
  Cooperative Linux, abbreviated as coLinux, is software which allows Microsoft Windows and the Linux kernel to run simultaneously in parallel on the same machine....
  
   (Cooperative Linux
  Cooperative Linux
  Cooperative Linux, abbreviated as coLinux, is software which allows Microsoft Windows and the Linux kernel to run simultaneously in parallel on the same machine....
  
  )
• Slackware
  Slackware
  Slackware is a free and open source Linux-based operating system. It was one of the earliest operating systems to be built on top of the Linux kernel and is the oldest currently being maintained. Slackware was created by Patrick Volkerding of Slackware Linux, Inc. in 1993...
  
  
• Wubi (installer)
• andLinux
  AndLinux
  andLinux is a Ubuntu-based system using the Linux kernel designed to run a Linux environment natively on Windows systems . It is a FLOSS software being released under the GNU GPL license...
  
  
• Portable Ubuntu Remix for Windows
• Paravirtualization
  Paravirtualization
  In computing, paravirtualization is a virtualization technique that presents a software interface to virtual machines that is similar but not identical to that of the underlying hardware....
  
  
• Comparison of platform virtual machines