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. . . or a Windows badge on Linux.

• zepolen 16y ago
  For the most part webapps will work under any OS with a browser, you can't really say the same thing about Windows/Linux software.
  • rbanffy 16y ago
    Windows NT was designed to have "multiple personalities". It has a Win32 personality most Windows programs see, a POSIX personality (that I think doesn't exist anymore) and an OS/2 personality (that I never saw). Each one could run binaries designed for the respective environment. Few Windows programs ever touch the NT kernel. OSX is also modeled like this. There is a Mach kernel and a BSD-like personality on top of it. Wine allows Win32 software to run on top of Unix without ever realizing they are running on top of a "fake" Win32 stack. I think GNUStep could be used to build something similar that could allow OSX software to run on non-OSX hosts.
    • outofband 16y ago
      the posix personality still exists - it's called SUA; the Subsystem for UNIX Applications. the guys at interop systems have made a really nice ports-esque system for it so it's easy to get up and running with the usual pile of apps.
      • jf 16y ago
        Do you have more details on this? I looked around for a while and ended up installing cygwin...