Windows In Linux Natively

[Majin]

😱 OMG check this article out http://www.winbeta.org/winbeta/forums/index.php?showtopic=4052 this is amazing soon windows apps may run natively under linux no more incompatibilities under wine . heres the companies website http://www.specopslabs.com/index.htm
gotta check this out , i cant wait for this!!!!!!

 

[j79zlr]

why? Most Gnu/open source software is better than windows based junk. The only software package I actually prefer is Office, openOffice is still a little shaky and not fully compatible.

So can you run viruses in wine? 😀

 

[vern]

Maybe it's just hype? A lot of people promise things, and most don't deliver too well.

 

[NetRyder]

Very interesting. Curious to see what becomes of this project.

 

[desie]

LOL, just run VMWARE under Linux and install Windows that way if you can afford VMWARE. I'd try and stick to Linux software if you could.

 

[ignipotentis]

Check out the project status. If this is the same article posted on /., the status is like 0%.

Typically of me, I haven't read the article/link to know for sure 🙂

 

[Xie]

Question though, wouldn't this make that Linux box 100% Windows virus compatible as well? 🙄

 

[ignipotentis]

Question though, wouldn't this make that Linux box 100% Windows virus compatible as well? 🙄

not neceisarrily. Outlook may still be vounerable to worms, but IIS intrusions wouldn't happen becuase no one would chose to run that over apache on a *nix box. Also, if someone did manage to execute a virus, chances are it will be looking to do some damage to c:\windows\ or the like, which wouldn't exist. Even if the compatibility layer managed to transltate all those calls to linux type calls, the better memory protections *SHOULD* keep us in the clear.

Lets just remember coders... make sure the buffer can hold what you are inserting 🙂