The bottom line is that it allows us to run Linux on an unmodified
Windows 2000/XP system in a practical way (the user just launches an app), and it may eventually bring Linux to a large sector of desktop computer users who wouldn't even care about trying to install a dual boot system or boot a Linux live CD (like Knoppix).
Screen-shots and further details at:
http://www.colinux.org
Our motto is:
"If Linux runs on every architecture, why should another operating system be in its way?"
coLinux is similar to plex86 in a way that it implements a Linux-specific lightweight VM with I/O virtualization. However, it is designed to be mostly host-OS independent, so that with minimal porting efforts it would be possible to run it under Solaris, Linux itself, or any operating system that supports loading kernel drivers, under any architecture that uses an MMU. Unlike other virtualization methods, it doesn't base its implementation on exceptions that are caused by instructions.