There are plenty of solutions for achieving linux environment in Windows.
1)Installing Cygwin creates linux environment. But all programs are not supported by cygwin. Also it may create problems in newer versions of windows. It consists of two parts:
# A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
# A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel.
Problems regarding cygwin
# Cygwin is not a way to run native linux apps on Windows. You have to rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows.
# Cygwin is not a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX functionality, like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps from source if you want to take advantage of Cygwin functionality
Here's a video, guiding cygwin installation.
2) Install Linux OS inside a VMware & work inside. This is the safest method & most appropriate method if you have enough RAM to run VMware quite comfortably. Networking between the host & guest OS is cake walk in VMware. Don't forget to install vmware tools for linux.
Check out this video guide.
3)Download exe installer linux which will install linux in windows, yeah, you heard it right, not on windows but in windows, like any other software.
Some of them are --
Wubi - Ubuntu Installer for Windows
Pendrive linux
Here's a video, guiding wubi installation.
4) andlinux is yet another solution, it's creates a kde environment for Windows & supports xp/vista/7. Running linux programs are quite easy using it.
Here's a video, guiding the installation of andlinux.
f you want it other way round i.e. running windows software in linux,
check this out -->http://linux-techy.blogspot.com/2010/03/running-windows-applcations-in-linux.html
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