OS - Need one that runs within windows and will run java components. Free?

[Paddy Notemaker]

Dear all,

I was wondering if anyone might have an operating system that they had created at some point that would run inside windows to run java programs. Anything would be appreciated - just something basic. Thanks.

[PeOfEo]

An operating system does not run within another... if it is running within another than it simply isn't one. You can emulate another os of course. For instance on linux I use wine to run windows programs, and mac has a windows emulator, and from what I hear there are some mac emulators around.

You can also run an os from a cd if you choose too... konoppix is probably the most popular distro of linux that can be run completely from cd. It will of course be able to run java... that is probably the single biggest advantage of java is that it's lame bytecode can be run by just about everything.

[MstrBob]

Dear all,

I was wondering if anyone might have an operating system that they had created at some point that would run inside windows to run java programs. Anything would be appreciated - just something basic. Thanks.

Wait... what? First off, as Peo said, you can't run an operating system inside another operating system. Second of all, why do you need anything like that at all? All you need to run Java programs is the JVM. So, just download Java if you don't have it for some reason:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/index.jsp