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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by petecox on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:20PM (#14093717)
GNU/NT
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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by metaobject on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @09:04PM (#14093965)
Isn't that Cygwin?
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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @09:17PM (#14094018)
Cygwin is also GNU/NT.

If you like, it's the same as the ways of running GNU on the FreeBSD kernel; there's Debian/kFreeBSD, which is Debian compiled against the FreeBSD ABI, and there's the Linux compat layer that can run Linux ELF binaries unmodified. Both of those are legitimately GNU/FreeBSD systems (or subsystems).

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