With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0.

Reply to With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:59:37 GMT

saorsa@neondystopia.world — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:59:37 GMT

How much blood, sweat and tears were shed to get that working? If Ncommander is anything to go by, getting legacy systems like those to work properly can be incredibly cursed.

@hailey@hails.org

Reply to With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:21:30 GMT

hollowone@mas.erb.pw — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:21:30 GMT

@hailey can you elaborate more how it works? I see some 16bit code there and windows driver code. Does it mean I need regular windows that is extended by linux somehow or what is the concept here?