Help: Linux emulator?

wait for the intel "Atom" processor to come out. it is super small fairly powerful and cheap. get this professionally installed. Then get a bigger hard drive. Probably 20 gigs more than you already have so you have plenty of room for the Os and anything else you get for it. P.S. Watch out for Tom

I thought Ubuntu supports Dual-core. Download the latest Ubuntu to make sure it supports Dual-core. Ubuntu can also run without installing the OS itself. Just place the CD and choose the other option. I have heard about that emulator your talking about, but i don't know the name.

Oh so that is why my PC crashed when I installed my Ubuntu linux. Okay thanks for that small information I was about to reinstall the Linux but then I will not anymore if that would not run anyways.

For a start this "linux was not built for dual core." is rubbish. Linux loves multiply cores. That why our database servers has 8 CPUs each with 2 cores. The only downtimes any of them have had are when we took them down to upgrade them. Linux is primarily a server OS, being able to handle multiply cores and CPUs well is a must have feature. What do you want Linux for? Is it to use the command line tools (IMO the best feature of Linux for computery people) then look up Cygwin[1]. This also has an X server, and GNOME and KDE have been ported to it so if you really want Unix-a-like-in-a-window without actually having two OSes installed this is the way to go. Your next option would be a very light Linux install and VMWare[2]. VMWare allows you to run an OS in a window on a different OS (like(3) an emulator lets you run NES games on your PC). This does mean you will need a fair about of hard disk space, but you don't need to do anything complicated like partition it. Finally you have bootable CDs. They will give you a feel of what Linux is all about without having to do anything. 1] http://www.cygwin.com/ 2] http://www.vmware.com/ 3] Technical note. VMWare is not an emulator. It uses virtualization, same sort of deal but faster.

You can run Linux through a USB drive on your computer. There are many flavors of Linux that can be run portably like that. Also, it doesn't leave any trace of its usage on the computer it is being run. The system remains intact and no settings or configuration changes are made. Another way is to use 'bootable' discs of Linux. I personally tried Knoppix and it does what it says. You just have to put in the CD/DVD and make some changes in your BIOS to make it boot from the CD/DVD drive and you are done. Although I haven't tried USB versions but I believe they might be faster than the CD/DVD coz USB has a faster mode of data-transfer. You can find more info at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

"linux was not built for dual core"An absolute lie. It works beautifully. It won't crash because of your dual core system. As for an emulator... If you really don't have enough space to install a Linux distribution then an emulator of any sort won't help you very much because you still need to install the whole operating system onto your hard drive, just not with its own partition (which can save some space). The best method would be to use virtualization. I have to recommend the amazing and free VirtualBox ( http://virtualbox.org ). It's a perfectly safe way to install and test out an operating system, and you can just delete the file it makes when you're done. While it won't be able to emulate graphics well (don't expect to be able to run 3D games or compiz-fusion), it'll do anything else for you at perfect speed on your dual-core system.