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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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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otterley ◴[30 Mar 16 19:14 UTC] No.11392096[source]▶
Oh, that's a shame. When was it removed?
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1. 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/