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Linux 4.16 Released (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Linus Torvalds has released Linux 4.16. Linux 4.16 integrates more of the VirtualBox guest drivers into the kernel, provides AMDGPU DC multi-display synchronization, continues with mitigation improvements for Spectre and Meltdown mitigation, tightens up access to /dev/mem by default, and many other improvements and changes.
Mac OS L, HURD 3.0, or, BeOS Warp will probably exist around the time that monolithic kernels get too big for their britches. Get back to us when you've tried them, if you please.
Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
When?
How Microsoft made Linux run on Windows was by adding hooks through an abstract layer. Unfortunately, Windows was designed with a HAL (hardware abstract layer) from the beggining when David Cutler wanted to make it portable across hardware. Win64 and wow32 (win32onwin64) are really layers on top of the kernel for runtimes. Linux is another one.
Linux is a macro-kernel so this would be messy (reminds me of the old Linux is obsolete it isn't a micro kernel debate from Andy Tannabum) but could be I guess possible if someone wanted to a winapi including NDIS and lord knows what else hooks into the linux kernel itself.
Then a daemon could use those hooks and launch the inverse of WSL that is on Windows 10 to run binaries.
Also keep in mind at this time only console linux apps work on Windows. This is because the OpenGL and device driver API and ABI's have not been ported yet. On Windows everything is gui based :-(
So this would not be easy or possible unless one wants to just run win32 powershell scripts and dos commands.
http://saveie6.com/
What? No AI engine? What about a smart assistant? This Linus guy obviously doesn't know much about operating systems.
Give me the FreeBSD kernel with the Windows 7 interface. Clean and no systemd bullshit.
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