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Fri 04 Apr 2007Parallel worldsWired:  I'm writing this column on Linux. That's to say, I'm writing the article using a word processing program that's running under Linux, the free operating system. Except, I'm not, quite: because the copy of Linux I'm running is actually being run on a Apple laptop, which is running MacOS X, Apple's operating system, writes Danny O'Brien.You see, I'm running a program in MacOS X called Parallels, which lets you run other operating systems under MacOS, such as Linux and Microsoft Windows.