Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification

Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by freehunter on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:39AM (#9190656)

Unless you need Windows just slightly more than you need Linux, or your hardware doesn't work properly under Linux, or you need software that Linux, even Wine, can't run. Or your processor isn't even capable of booting Linux, but it can run Windows (Intel Atom Bay Trail comes to mind).

--edit apparently Bay Trail does support Linux. The big hype when it was launched was that it would not, that's where my confusion came in

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Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by emodendroket on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:41AM (#9190670)

I mean, no problem, but, ultimately, cygwin is walled off from certain parts of the system and you're just going to have to deal with the fact that WinNT has major differences from Linux for some tasks. I use cygwin sometimes too but it makes more sense "in addition to" than "instead of."

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Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by homarp on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:54AM (#9190757)

Linux runs on Bay Trail, e.g. https://www.happyassassin.net/fedlet-a-fedora-remix-for-bay-...

the problem was the 32 bit UEFI. Also solved: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/155557/installing-li...

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Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by kbradero on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:49AM (#9190723)

actually I'm pretty sure Bay Trail do run Linux.

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