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Re:Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux by ThrowawayR2 on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:38PM (#28815545)
Microsoft defines the hardware specification for Windows compatible x86 and all the OEMs that manufacture x86 servers (even ones most likely destined to never run anything other than Linux), desktops, and laptops certify against it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/hlk/

There are no other standards for what a PC is. All of the open OSes, including Linux, just piggyback on Microsoft's standard. (And if anyone believes that the various giants building custom ARM processors aren't hoping that they can get dominance based on their own spec so that they can displace Microsoft and wield the same power, think again.)

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Re:Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux by cesarb on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:55AM (#28818433)
> And if anyone believes that the various giants building custom ARM processors aren't hoping that they can get dominance based on their own spec so that they can displace Microsoft and wield the same power, think again.

ARM already has their own spec for that, the SBSA. So the one wielding power will most probably be ARM itself, not one of the "various giants building custom ARM processors".

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Re:Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @12:52PM (#28819887)
I looked around briefly but I mostly see articles saying "SBSA is eventually a goal" for various products. Is the ARM ecosystem coalescing around SBSA?
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Re:Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux by DeathArrow on Sunday October 10, 2021 @04:42AM (#28816831)
I think Intel designs specifications for x86 platform, not MS. And someone should do it after IBM quit doing it.

Otherwise we would have the same level of fragmentation in x86 hardware space that we have in Linux software or that we see in ARM space. Much less compatibility.

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