DOS ain't dead - Windows 10 will soon support running Ubuntu ELF binaries

Windows 10 will soon support running Ubuntu ELF binaries (Emulation)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 01.04.2016, 02:03

I almost hate to bring this up, it's highly off-topic, but ...

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBash...lAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx

So MS does (again) have interest in binary compatibility on NT (but not for DOS or OS/2, is anyone really surprised??).

And no, this is not related to (dead) SFU/Interix, (recompiled) Cygwin, or even Hyper-V (Win8 Pro 64-bit) VMs or containers.

*BSD already had Linux emulation, and even qemu-*-user supports (only) BSD, Darwin, and Linux.

Heck, even DOS had a few old ELF toolsets that helped (barely) with compatibility.

Honestly, this is good news. But we'll have to wait and see how it pans out.

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Complete thread:

ReactOS 0.4.0 alpha - Rugxulo, 17.02.2016, 06:09 (Emulation)
- ReactOS 0.4.0 alpha - iw2evk, 17.02.2016, 18:46
  - ReactOS 0.4.0 alpha - Rugxulo, 20.02.2016, 00:10
  - ReactOS 0.4.0 alpha - bocke, 23.02.2016, 20:46
    - ReactOS 0.4.0 alpha - bocke, 23.02.2016, 20:46
- ReactOS 0.4.0 alpha - Guti, 21.02.2016, 19:29
- ReactOS 0.4.0 alpha - RayeR, 03.03.2016, 15:53
  - ReactOS 0.4.0 alpha - iw2evk, 05.03.2016, 14:24
    - ReactOS 0.4.0 alpha - Rugxulo, 06.03.2016, 01:20
    - ReactOS 0.4.0 alpha - RayeR, 08.03.2016, 02:13
      - ReactOS 0.4.0 alpha - RayeR, 29.03.2016, 11:41
        Windows 10 will soon support running Ubuntu ELF binaries - Rugxulo, 01.04.2016, 02:03
        Windaube 10 and Windaube 95 | ReactOS 0.40 and 0.41 - DOS386, 27.04.2016, 11:56
        Windaube 10 and Windaube 95 | ReactOS 0.40 and 0.41 - Rugxulo, 17.05.2016, 19:59
        Windaube 10 and Windaube 95 | ReactOS 0.40 and 0.41 - RayeR, 18.05.2016, 22:09
        Windaube 10 and Windaube 95 | ReactOS 0.40 and 0.41 - Doug, 19.05.2016, 06:01
        Windaube 10 and Windaube 95 | ReactOS 0.40 and 0.41 - RayeR, 19.05.2016, 23:00
        Windaube 10 and Windaube 95 | ReactOS 0.40 and 0.41 - roytam, 20.05.2016, 01:19
        Windaube 10 and Windaube 95 | ReactOS 0.40 and 0.41 - Rugxulo, 19.05.2016, 07:34