The right way is to make all CrapOS binaries run on Linux (preferably
better than in CrapOS itself), making CrapOS something that you just
plain DON'T NEED.
Oh, don't forget to read the comments that follow below..
Stephen D. Williams wrote:
> The WLinux idea (high level):
>
> Create a configuration and distribution of Linux that will run 'under'
> Win95 and WinNT using virtual device stubs to access native device
> drivers and innovative methods to safely coexist with the 'closed'
> operating system. I call this WLinux. (By extension, WLinux95,
> WLinuxNT.) (Some consulting company has the name 'Winux' I believe.)
>
> Yes, this sounds crazy and useless at first to many. Also, it's quite
> obvious that we'd all like to run Linux natively and virtualize
> Win95/NT. (And there are people working on that difficult task.) It
> occurred to me that this, opposite, scenario had a lot of interesting
> side effects.
>
> Benefits:
>
> A truly portable, shrinkwrap version of Linux that can run on any
> Win95/WinNT machine with no regard to native device drivers.
> (Assuming a typical application.)
>
> Total availability of Linux to any user.
The average CrapOS user couldn't care less about Linux. If they do care
about it, it's because Linux actually WORKS whereas CrapOS DOESN'T. Now,
can you please tell me how to make a stable, well performing operating
system on an unstable, badly performing one? You're predestined to fail.
> The ability to say that Linux can run on more machines than any other
> OS. (In other words, if Linux can run on any Win95/NT box, then it is
> Always a superset of MS OS availability.) In any case, some suitable
> statement could be constructed to annoy Gates.
[snip]
> Total availability of Linux to all application developers. This is
> probably the most valuable benefit. It provides a large market for
> Unix/Linux programs and a possible migration path.
To where, from Wintendo to Unix or from Unix to Wintendo?
Economics, economics, economics: I don't want Wintendo to have all my
Unix apps but I do want to have all the Wintendo apps on my Unix because
that gives me a comparative advantage.
My Linux runs everything - from Nintendo to Wintendo. Can your Wintendo
run Linux? No? Well, I guess that means I can use all your tools to
produce $$$ yet you can't use any of mine. I Lin - you Woose (get
this;]).
Andrej
-- Andrej Presern, andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si
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