Re:Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10
by squarefoot on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:09AM
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This is functionally speaking exactly what WINE has been for Linux, although WINE differs and was a lot harder to develop because for obvious reasons it cannot contain a Windows kernel.
My only concern is one day people (Microsoft?) will start writing "Linux" software which would "perform better" on WSL rather than on regular Linux, then driving away part of the userbase from the real thing.
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Re:Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10
by razakel on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:58AM
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>My only concern is one day people (Microsoft?) will start writing "Linux" software which would "perform better" on WSL rather than on regular Linux, then driving away part of the userbase from the real thing.
I suspect their lawyers would gently remind them that the Department of Justice and the European Commission were not best pleased when they pulled that crap in the past.