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Microsoft would have to be asleep at the wheel if they hadn't at some point had a few engineers get a BSD libc and userland running on the NT kernel. Just beca
by alrs 13y ago
Microsoft would have to be asleep at the wheel if they hadn't at some point had a few engineers get a BSD libc and userland running on the NT kernel.
Just because Microsoft won't sell you the NT kernel without a GUI on top doesn't mean that NT kernel is forever welded to a GUI.
- runjake 13y agoIt's already here. Server Core is the NT OS without a GUI. Also, there's been a few implementations of a full UNIX subsystem on Windows. Intermix and Services For UNIX come to mind. Also check out Colinux if it's still alive.