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Wine is a lot different from virtualization. It’s likely if Microsoft did release a Windows compatible Linux (or some micro kernel thing) they would virtualize
by CoolGuySteve 8y ago
Wine is a lot different from virtualization. It’s likely if Microsoft did release a Windows compatible Linux (or some micro kernel thing) they would virtualize the SxS assemblies and kernel for each application to help with security and compatibility.
They gave a demo called MinWin years ago that more or less did the same thing.
- jchw 8y agoThat would be a very neat approach. I had not heard of MinWin until today and now I'm pretty curious exactly what it entails and what the implications of it are.
- CoolGuySteve 8y agoIt’s actually difficult to piece together what MinWin was exactly. Some sources say it used virtualization, other source say it was an extremely limited NT kernel. I suspect it was a little of both.