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BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed

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Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed

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Post by prmoustache »

doublerabbit wrote: post #5
ianai wrote: post #2

Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.

This is where we should be, native support of Linux on Windows and native support of Windows on Linux. Executables should be cross-compatible, we somehow ended up in a reality of monopolistic -- 1v1. I would enjoy it to break free at some point but I doubt it. Just about everything now is it's own garden with a tiny API gate to allow you access to the minor features of the whole collection. I am aware of WSL and the…

No. What should be is that everything is open source and proptietary code is illegal.

Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed

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Post by pjmlp »

RachelF wrote: post #41

Windows NT 3.x and 4 were Posix complaint. In the mid-1990's there were a few vendors that sold products that let you run full X11 apps on NT. Microsoft bought and extinguished the largest one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix

During university days, had NT really properly supported POSIX, I probably would never bothered with that "Linux Unleashed with Slackware 2.0 CD-ROM" book.

If Microsoft could tell the future, they would have improved POSIX, instead of killing it, and then briging a Linux VM into the OS.

Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed

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Post by sydbarrett74 »

RachelF wrote: post #41

Windows NT 3.x and 4 were Posix complaint. In the mid-1990's there were a few vendors that sold products that let you run full X11 apps on NT. Microsoft bought and extinguished the largest one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix

I guess WSL/WSL2 is Microsoft's mea culpa. :D

Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed

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Post by Teever »

SuperNinKenDo wrote: post #28
minton wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened to Notch?

I assume his tendency to say things that upset a particularly sensitive political milieu, but I can't say that's what they meant for certain.

Is that really how you interpreted my comment?

My critique of Notch is that he doesn't do cool stuff anymore.

Stuff like that weird space game that he was talking about making, or something like BSD on windows.

Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed

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Post by speps »

RachelF wrote: post #41

Windows NT 3.x and 4 were Posix complaint. In the mid-1990's there were a few vendors that sold products that let you run full X11 apps on NT. Microsoft bought and extinguished the largest one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix

Just playing devil's advocate here but Interix according to the Wikipedia was supported by Microsoft until Windows 7 (1999 to 2010). I wouldn't call that "bought and extinguished".

Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed

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Post by vkazanov »

pjmlp wrote: post #55
RachelF wrote: post #41

Windows NT 3.x and 4 were Posix complaint. In the mid-1990's there were a few vendors that sold products that let you run full X11 apps on NT. Microsoft bought and extinguished the largest one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix

During university days, had NT really properly supported POSIX, I probably would never bothered with that "Linux Unleashed with Slackware 2.0 CD-ROM" book. If Microsoft could tell the future, they would have improved POSIX, instead of killing it, and then briging a Linux VM into the OS.

Microsoft did everything, like everything and more, to kill every alternative platform on the planet. Hedging their bets with half-hearted posix support was part of that effort.

If not for that MSN vs Internet fiasco, they would succeed.

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