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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by anthk on Monday March 27, 2023 @08:34AM (#35325856)
Not Linux but you could do that with a BSD kernel perfectly. MS could implement Win32 on top of a BSD kernel in just weeks.

Did you know Win32 runs as a subsystem on top of NT, as there are several more such as a subsystem for Unix?

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by Zurrrrr on Monday March 27, 2023 @10:13AM (#35326903)
I know NT was designed with that in mind, but I don't think any type of unix subsystem is still maintained or would work these days. Although they could make it if they wanted it to.

Then again maybe the modern NT no longer has that capability.

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by DeathArrow on Monday March 27, 2023 @02:46PM (#35330638)
Support for the POSIX subsystem was deprecated some time ago according to Wikipedia:

> Microsoft's first foray into achieving Unix-like compatibility on Windows began with the Microsoft POSIX Subsystem, superseded by Windows Services for UNIX via MKS/Interix, which was eventually deprecated with the release of Windows 8.1.

There was also the possibility to run Linux software under Windows using coLinux.

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by mcv on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:20AM (#35337845)
I've been thinking about something similar: wouldn't it be possible to create an OS that supports both Linux and Windows executables? (And maybe also Mac while we're at it.) Probably not based on the Linux kernel, but perhaps on a microkernel of some sort. But if it already works with BSD, that's even better.
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