In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
04/30/98
at 03:09 PM, Kirk Rafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote:
>> Well, true, but without the emulators, Linux isn't a threat on the desktop.
>> At least, not yet.
>>
>> If Microsoft could squash them, it'd pretty much restrict Linux's growth
>> enough to do the damage.
>I don't think emulators will put Linux on the desktop. Emulators are
>always at least a rev behind. They're a stop-gap measure. What will put
>Linux on the desktop are world class applications that can compete
>head-to-head with Microsoft apps. And if those apps have GNU-type
>licensing, Microsoft doesn't stand a chance.
[...]
How about a Win32-Linux Project? There is already a Win32-OS2 Project and
it is producing a PE to LX converter (pe2lx.exe) that converts Win32
programs into native OS/2 programs...no recompile necessary...and
performance is essentially equivalent. This is rather easily possible
with OS/2 because it supports (incompletely) Open32 which is based on
Win32. IBM left out some functions when they incorporated Open32 into
OS/2 but those holes are being filled by a small group of independent
programmers (http://www.os2ss.com/win32-os2.html). Could something along
this line work for Linux? Perhaps WINE could be molded into this kind of
project instead...
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