> They take a FreeBSD/Linux distro and add a "Windows" layer on top, ala Apple. No. NT is a far more advanced kernel than any of the free unixes. If anything,

> They take a FreeBSD/Linux distro and add a "Windows" layer on top, ala Apple. No. NT is a far more advanced kernel than any of the free unixes. If anything, they'll make it the other way around; a decent "linux" subsystem which can seamlessly run ELF binaries. Like FreeBSD's linux binary support. Or like coLinux, but without the overhead of virtualizing another kernel.