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Thanks for the info. I was aware of them, but a VM isn't what I meant. WINE isn't a VM or an emulator: it "just" translates Win32 API calls to Linux ones. Gett

Thanks for the info. I was aware of them, but a VM isn't what I meant. WINE isn't a VM or an emulator: it "just" translates Win32 API calls to Linux ones. Getting that working has required implementing a load of DLLs and things, but it works surprisingly well now. An environment to let Linux binaries launch on Plan 9 (or insert preferred derivative here: 9front, Harvey, Jehanne OS, whatever), akin to the Linuxulator in FreeBSD or the Linux Zone on Solaris, would make the OS much more usable.

anthk 4y ago
I know what Wine does, for sure. Linuxemu and BSDemu did that, the same as Linux_compat on free/netbsd or Wine, but with vmx the former emulation it's obsolete. https://fqa.9front.org/fqa8.html#8.7.1 https://fqa.9front.org/fqa8.html#8.7.1 Old and outdated. You might be able to run some statically linked browser from elsewhere. Linuxemu works with i386 ELF binaries, so maybe an Alpine i386 chroot could work.