Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 1998 15:26:17 +0100 (CET) | | From | Marek Habersack <> | | Subject | Re: WLinux, kinda [OFFTOPIC] comment |
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On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Joseph Malicki wrote:
> The WLinux already (kind of) exists- its called GNU-Win32 by Cygnus Solutions - > http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ > It is a GPL'd, fully POSIX compliant version of GNU tools that runs under 95 > and NT, including bash, gcc, etc. Just about any UNIX program should compile > under it, though it is still in beta. It did result in the first What's that to do with Linux? The GNU tools aren't any OS-centered, they also exist on DOS, OS/2 and all Unices out there. And you don't say that OpenDOS with the full suite of GNU tools is an DOSLinux ;)
> implementation of Kerberos under NT, for instance. It's probably not worth > the time to develop WLinux when this is available, even though it doesn't > run linux binaries. But a linux binary loader in conjunction with gnu-win32 > would work nicely....... No, it wouldn't work at all. What's the binary loader for when you don't have the OS that the binary's been compiled for? You'd need a Linux emulator for windowz to run it. The GNU tools have nothing to do with it.
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