On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Lambrecht Joris wrote: > Also, imho the "personality" thing is a grand idea on it's own. When > will Linux get such a feature. Imagine plugging in an OS personality
It's been in the kernel since at least 2.0, maybe earlier. This is how Linux and FreeBSD can run each others' binaries. > on your linux kernel and running say MacOS X apps or even (urgh) > Windows 9x/NT apps ... unless i'm completely off center here ... enjoy The problem with Windows apps is that they require a lot of functionality in the OS that isn't part of the Linux kernel. For this see WINE. As for MacOS X, that's a little more interesting, because MacOS X is Unixy enough that this might be usable in case of Linux running on Apple hardware. (For x86 it would be no use unless Apple makes a MacOS X for that platform). However MacOS X is similar to Windows, there is a lot there that isn't anything like what the Linux kernel provides. You'd need something similar to WINE to handle all the graphics-related stuff and so on.
