can i ask if it is possible to make a program that communicates between microsoft and linux operating system?

Answer 1

There are two types of communication:
- if you are talking about linking two computers, there are absolutely no problems! The simple TCP/IP protocol would do the trick...
- if you are talking about reading from one partition to another, only Linux can read from Windows partition, not viceversa, and I think there's no way you can do it

Answer 2

not really sure what you are asking for here but communications between microsoft and linux operating exists widely. Most of the web servers you will connect to are run on apache web servers run linux machines and your xp machine has no problem in communicating with it.

If you want to be able to connect your xp box to your linux then you can use VNC which allows you to control your linux box from xp or the other way round. Very handy if you have 2 boxes and best of all the software is probably already part of the both operating systems.

If you are talking about file sharing then SAMBA is what you are looking for and again it is usually bundled with your linux system and is inbuilt into microsoft operating systems. As well as file sharing samba will allow you share a single printer between the two boxes so long as the printer has linux driver support.

Answer 3

Hi, there is a univeral communications program that is avaliable for all operating systems, its called Kermit.

Failing that I would use a large email account (e.g. gmail) and send and receive the file or data.

If its dynamic interchange you want (e.g. text or message) many of the usual client programs like Skype, Hello, MSN and Yahoo Messanger can operate cross platform.

Hope this helps

Peter

Answer 4

IFS module for XP: link from siohw.com

You can run them at the same time in Linux (see bochs VM).

Answer 5

yup. most online games are played thru linux servers.