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Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux?

Posted by timothy on from the yoga-position-questions dept.

scrm writes "The next version of Windows should be built on top of Linux, according to this article by Robert Cringely of PBS." If Microsoft wanted to, they could be the world's largest vendor of Free software .. couldn't they?

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  1. Re:Windows Kernels, and Environments by Osty · · Score: 1, Redundant

    X server -> GDI.exe

    First off, I hope you really meant gdi32.dll and not gdi.exe, as the various system files ending in .exe like gdi.exe and krnl386.exe and so on are only around for compatibility reasons for WOW (Windows on Windows, or the Win16 subsystem). Look at the file information on gdi.exe, for example. The version is not 5.1.2600.1106 (XP sp1), but 3.10.0.103 (ack! Win3.1!). Second, GDI is more like X's programming interface rather than the X server. It gives you all of the drawing primitives, and little more. In XP and later Windows operating systems, one could consider Terminal Services to be like X, since it's been integrated to handle all logins (even those while sitting directly in front of the computer).