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Hi,

> I am a computer science student taking the operating
> systems course. All of our assignments are supposed
> run on Linux and I don't have 
> a Linux machine. 

Programming the operating system is very dependent on the operating
system.

Talk your prof to accept a project based on FreeBSD, that would even
broaden the scope of the course by introducing a glimpse to another
OS.

Olivier