Linux multimedia player applications such as MPlayer and Helix
support some Windows Media features. See Chapter 10, ???Sights, Sounds, and Other
Fun Things,??? for more information.
If you edit a lot of files in both operating systems, you should strongly consider creating a
small FAT partition to store your data files.
On the other side of the computer, Windows has no native support for reading any Linux
file system. Some applications, like the Ext2 IFS for Windows, enable you to view files on
the Linux Extended File System (ext2 and ext3), but none of these currently support other
file systems like ReiserFS.
Learn more about Linux file systems in Chapter 18, ???Managing Files, Volumes, and
Drives.???
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Emulating Other Operating Systems in Linux:
An Overview
Essentially, there are two methods to accomplish the task of running applications across
platforms. In the first method, an emulator translates an application??™s calls to one operating
system (such as Windows) to another (Linux). In the second method, an application
builds a virtual machine that creates a second computer inside your computer.
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