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Re:Microsoft's Linux Kernel by MuffinFlavored on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:27PM (#20309676)
How? Wouldn't it be the year of the "Microsoft emulating Linux behind the scenes" desktop, aka still Microsoft windows?
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Re:Microsoft's Linux Kernel by danellis on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:30PM (#20309696)
That's the point—they're not emulating Linux anymore, they're actually running Linux as some kind of lightweight Hyper-V VM.
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Re:Microsoft's Linux Kernel by xfer on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:30PM (#20309697)
Emualting? Literally shipping a kernel and distro with their OS..
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Re:Microsoft's Linux Kernel by MuffinFlavored on Sunday June 30, 2019 @09:22PM (#20321740)
What's the GUI going to run? X.org? Wayland? Or in the Windows ecosystem?...
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Re:Microsoft's Linux Kernel by NullPrefix on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:46PM (#20309777)
Wine is not an Emulator
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Re:Microsoft's Linux Kernel by perennate on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:55PM (#20309833)
Also at one point "Windows Emulator": http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windows-emulation/wine-faq/
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