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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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