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by sophistc 1945 days ago
NT originally had a Unix subsystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
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emptyparadise 1945 days ago
Yeah, and WSL1 was something similar, but I was suggesting just Unix here, no Win32. Imagine GNU/NT!
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HeckFeck 1945 days ago
If someone wanted to attempt this absolute bastardisation of God's will, you could try porting the GNU userland to run atop the ReactOS kernel.

We'd finally have the GPL-licenced microkernel OS of Stallman's dreams.

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wruza 1945 days ago
Apart from fork() and custom async io (epoll, iocp) aren’t they pretty compatible even without cygwin? GNU relies on POSIX (afair), so wouldn’t NT features be unused extra?
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