Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen D. Williams" <> | Subject | Re: WLinux -> Subverting Windows by making Linux available to MS users | Date | Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:46:50 -0500 (EST) |
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> On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Stephen D. Williams wrote: > > > WLinux however can be done fairly easily and would provide complete > > functionality for both Win95/NT AND Linux binaries simultaneously. > Nope. Important features of Linux include: > - stability. WLinux can by definition be only more or equal instable > than the host. > - performance. WLinux can also only be slower or equal than the host. > Andreas
To me, those are characteristics, not features.
Features are binary compatibility, system calls, OS services, device drivers, etc. No matter how stable Wine, Wabi, or Dosemu are compared to Win95, they aren't viable as an alternative to Win95 until they are Win32/Win95 feature complete. Since it's taken so long, and since Win95 is such a huge hackfest with one of the fattest OS interfaces imaginable, I've begun to lose hope that the emulations will be viable soon enough to make any difference in the OS wars.
Just because I might run Linux on a 20 Mhz 386 with no cache, 4 MB ram, faulty motherboard, and a faulty 80ms HD doesn't mean it has fewer features than the same version of Linux on a modern PC...
The fact is, I need both Linux and Win95 for a desktop PC, no matter how much I dislike it. I can run two boxes to get this effect, but that's not viable for everyone. This is what WLinux solves.
I AM mindful of Pick and I Don't want to turn Linux into such an 'application only' environment. I simply want Linux to be available everywhere in as many unstoppable ways as possible.
sdw
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