What is the opposite of Wine? [closed]
Cygwin is closest to what you are looking for, though not exactly like Wine.
Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts:
- A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
- A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel.
It is not binary-compatible with Linux applications, you still need to rebuild them from source to run under Cygwin. Once rebuilt, however, they should work exactly like on Linux.
Not quite the same, but you could also run a full linux installation inside a VM such as Virtualbox: http://virtualbox.org/
Take a look at andLinux (based on coLinux).
From the site:
andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista; 32-bit versions only).
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Although this technology is a bit like running Linux in a virtual machine, coLinux differs itself by being more of a merger of Windows and the Linux kernel and not an emulated PC, making it more efficient. Xming is used as X server and PulseAudio as sound server.
andLinux is not just for development and runs almost all Linux applications without modification.