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Do they have any other usecase behind Wine? My guess would be MS SQL server, but is that correct?
by torginus 7mo ago
Do they have any other usecase behind Wine? My guess would be MS SQL server, but is that correct?
- ElectricalUnion 7mo agoStarting with SQL Server 2017, native Linux support exists. Probably because of Azure.
- qalmakka 7mo agoIronically, SQL Server AFAIK in order to run on Linux uses what basically amounts to a Microsoft reimplementation of Wine. Which always makes me wonder if they'll ever get rid of Windows altogether someday in favour of using Linux + a Win32 shim. I think there are still somewhat strong incentives nowadays to keep NT around, but I wouldn't be that surprised it this happened sometime down the line.
- sirjaz 7mo agoIt's a Windows container. It runs the NT kernel and a few minimal other things. The closest would be the Nano Server container
- qalmakka 7mo agoAFAIK it's more like a reimplementation of NT APIs in userspace - aka basically Wine with extra steps, or Linux UM. There was a slide deck going around about Project Drawbridge, here: https://threedots.ovh/slides/Drawbridge.pdf https://threedots.ovh/slides/Drawbridge.pdf