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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by torginus on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @07:02PM (#47510792)
Do they have any other usecase behind Wine? My guess would be MS SQL server, but is that correct?
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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by ElectricalUnion on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @08:08PM (#47511418)
Starting with SQL Server 2017, native Linux support exists. Probably because of Azure.
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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by qalmakka on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @03:08AM (#47514226)
Ironically, SQL Server AFAIK in order to run on Linux uses what basically amounts to a Microsoft reimplementation of Wine. Which always makes me wonder if they'll ever get rid of Windows altogether someday in favour of using Linux + a Win32 shim. I think there are still somewhat strong incentives nowadays to keep NT around, but I wouldn't be that surprised it this happened sometime down the line.
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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by sirjaz on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:43AM (#47517266)
It's a Windows container. It runs the NT kernel and a few minimal other things. The closest would be the Nano Server container
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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by qalmakka on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:57AM (#47517423)
AFAIK it's more like a reimplementation of NT APIs in userspace - aka basically Wine with extra steps, or Linux UM. There was a slide deck going around about Project Drawbridge, here: https://threedots.ovh/slides/Drawbridge.pdf
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