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2049 points bpierre | 3 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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otterley ◴[30 Mar 16 17:27 UTC] No.11391114[source]▶
To clarify, it sounds like what Microsoft has added to Windows 10 is a Linux ABI.

This has been done before with other x86 OSes: FreeBSD has had 32-bit ABI compatibility for at least a decade (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html), and the "lx branded zone" for Solaris has it as well (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/817-1592/gchhy/index.ht...).

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melloc ◴[30 Mar 16 18:55 UTC] No.11391938[source]▶
You can't use lx-branded zones in Solaris anymore, but SmartOS has revived and continued the project, and OmniOS has started porting the bits into their distribution, too.
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1. otterley ◴[30 Mar 16 19:14 UTC] No.11392096[source]▶
Oh, that's a shame. When was it removed?
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2. bahamat ◴[30 Mar 16 19:25 UTC] No.11392194[source]▶
After Oracle bought Sun. It was never a part of Solaris 11. I don't know if it's still part of Solaris 10 or not, but even if it is, it's only barely usable.

But it's alive and well (and awesome) in SmartOS, with active work going on to merge it into OmniOS, and eventually will be upstreamed to illumos-gate.

3. melloc ◴[30 Mar 16 19:27 UTC] No.11392217[source]▶
It's hard to find an exact date, but according to this blog post, it looks like it was removed in June 2010: http://os-solaris.ru/en/lx-brand-dlya-openindiana-151a/