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Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by xaduha »

tatref wrote: post #5
zinekeller wrote: post #2

> Why? >> "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should." - Dr. Ian Malcolm I like this "Why?" "Why not?" attitude. Surprised though that a whole operating system, kernel and all, is dockerised though, especially that the impression of Docker to me is that it is normally everything but the kernel. Edit: I didn't read the QEMU in the name. I won't be…

Seems like this runs qemu inside the container.

Yeah, pretty run-of-the-mill as far as similar projects go. Maybe a tad over-complicated to put it mildly.

I've done something like this except not with KVM, but with headless Xorg+PulseAudio+Wine to have Hearthstone with sound over RDP.

Did it run? Yes. Did it run like crap? Absolutely!

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

hn_throwaway_69 wrote: post #7

This brings back great memories. Windows 2000 sparked my interest in computing. I was in elementary school and was obsessed with the 'Log on to' dropdown box on Windows login screens, and how you could use the same credentials on any PC. Somehow I managed to salvage an old computer and source myself a copy of the ISO and managed to setup an ADDS domain controller and join my mother's laptop to the domain. I went and…

> Why did I want multi forest? Guess I was preoccupied with whether or not I could, and didn't stop to think if I should. : )

Good news; you belong on Hacker News:)

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by argsv »

I just ran this on a Fedora machine and connected to Windows using rdesktop. It works and it's amazing. I like it. The Internet will surely be confused today with a surge of traffic from Internet Explorer 5. Incidentally, google.com still loads and allows searching; bing.com does not load.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by als0 »

zinekeller wrote: post #2

> Why? >> "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should." - Dr. Ian Malcolm I like this "Why?" "Why not?" attitude. Surprised though that a whole operating system, kernel and all, is dockerised though, especially that the impression of Docker to me is that it is normally everything but the kernel. Edit: I didn't read the QEMU in the name. I won't be…

KVM is being passed to the Docker container, so it is using hardware-assisted virtualisation. Of course, certain things like the BIOS and peripherals will be fully handled in software by QEMU.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by t0mas88 »

hn_throwaway_69 wrote: post #7

This brings back great memories. Windows 2000 sparked my interest in computing. I was in elementary school and was obsessed with the 'Log on to' dropdown box on Windows login screens, and how you could use the same credentials on any PC. Somehow I managed to salvage an old computer and source myself a copy of the ISO and managed to setup an ADDS domain controller and join my mother's laptop to the domain. I went and…

Same here, I experimented with win 2k server as a domain controller and also installed Red Hat with Samba for doing mostly the same. Not because it was useful at home, but because 13 year old me wanted to underhand how it worked and had lots of time.

The windows domain thing was a bit magical, but in the end an old PC with Red Hat and later Debian became a useful home server and router. I think I was quite lucky that my father had a background in IT so we did some things together in early Linux exploration. He hadn't used it before either but did use Unix in the early days.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by Crontab »

tiernano wrote: post #6

Someone posted that 2k was the last nt edition without bloat... I think that was wrong (plus comment seems to have been deleted). 2k3, 2k8, 2k8r2, 2k12, 2k12r2, 2016 and 2019 all have no bloat or random crap... 2022 is mostly the same.... And comes with (chrome) edge too... Since the xp days I have always skipped the home/pro/workstation editions of windows and used server... Gave more features I needed, like hyper v…

I was always a fan of NT4, personally speaking.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by voakbasda »

argsv wrote: post #23

I just ran this on a Fedora machine and connected to Windows using rdesktop. It works and it's amazing. I like it. The Internet will surely be confused today with a surge of traffic from Internet Explorer 5. Incidentally, google.com still loads and allows searching; bing.com does not load.

The fact that bing.com does not load using their own browser speaks volumes about Microsoft.
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