Besides using a shell account, are there any other ways to use Linux under windows such as an Unix/LINUX emulator. Thanks

http://www.cygwin.com/
It's a big fat UNIX emulation layer for Windows, based on C libraries and ports of all your favorite GNU programs.

Knoppix is a Linux booted by a CD, that requires no install and such, so you could run it with Windows.
Also Linux for Windows might work, [never tried it].

whatever happened to lindows?

Well, they decided to just make it an easy to use Linux rather than adding Windows support =/
[So now its basically you pay for what normally is free]

Reason to come to #hprog on freenode IRC: A Lindows developer is a regular. >P

Oh...lol...
I dont mess with IRC to much...just for rootwars mainly...

Lindows includes WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator) which allows you to run some Windows stuff (I run StarCraft using WINE.), but not anywhere near everything.

Yeah, I think their site has reviews of what people got to work/not work with WINE...unfortunatly Dreamweaver MX was one that _didnt_ work too good =/

WineX is supposedly good.. I subscribed to Transgaming, and thus I have a couple of their releases, but I'm not really much of a Linux user, so I haven't tried it much, and definately not the new version 3.

According to those I know have tried it, it's pretty good, though.

As for the question.. Yes, you can run Linux under Windows, but the (in my opinion) best ways cost money. Using VMWare you can install Linux on a virtual machine on Windows (or the other way around if you fancy that), and even though it's not perfect, it works quite well for development.