Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: linux on nt. | | From | stephen farrell <> | | Date | 18 Feb 1997 19:53:00 -0600 |
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"B. James Phillippe" <bryan@Terran.ORG> writes:
> > On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > i came across a press release that a company (Softway) will be developing a > > > unix process for windows nt. > > > > Someone did this quite a while ago. In theory you could host Linux on top > > of NT. Beats me why you'd want to slow Linux down so much however. I've also > > no idea how you would persuade our dear friend Bill to give you enough API > > info to do it > > Anyone consider the feasability of running NT as a Linux process? > Assuming this wasn't sick and insane and there was adequate documentation, > would there be a (unavoidable) technical limitation? >
NT would effectively have to be ported to linux (as linux was ported to mach in the mklinux project), which might be feasible if you have the source code. i hear MS will be releasing NT sources under the GPL next month.
ha.
steve farrell
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