December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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Hybrid Environments
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KDE—Linux and Unix
KDE (K Desktop Environment) is another desktop environment for Linux and Unix that is
worth mentioning.
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In addition to its strong multilingual and Unicode support, its appli-
cation suite, KOce, and the word-processing application that is included, KWord, have
become very popular.
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VMware Fusion—Run Windows on Mac OS X
Put simply, VMware Fusion allows Windows, as an OS, to run simultaneously with Mac
OS X.
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VMware Fusion creates a Windows virtual machine that is optimized for the Mac
OS X machine on which it is installed. Interestingly, the ability to create an OS virtual
machine allows VMware Fusion to do the same for other OSes, such as Linux. It is not
limited to Windows.
Wine—Run Windows on Unix, Linux, and Other OSes
Wine (an acronym that stands for Windows Emulator) is an open source implementation
of the Windows API.
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Because applications that run on Windows necessarily use standard
Windows APIs to interact with the OS and other applications, Wine acts as a suitable
substitute, but without the need to be running a Windows OS.
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X Window System—Unix
e X Window System (also known as X11R7, meaning “X Window System, version 11,
Release 7,” or simply as X11), originally developed by the now disbanded MIT X Consor-
tium, is a GUI windowing system and general multilingual environment that runs on top
of Unix that has recently become ava ...
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