Cooperative Linux 0.51 [LWN.net]

Cooperative Linux 0.51

Posted Jan 25, 2004 23:11 UTC (Sun) by njhurst (guest, #6022)
In reply to: Cooperative Linux 0.51 by donwaugaman
Parent article: Cooperative Linux 0.51

However, MS can't change older software. If linux could run windows 98 smoothly now, then all those people who are thinking about upgrading could run linux and have a complete legacy system available. As more people find such software useful, more effort can be justified in cloning more recent MS operating systems (like samba does for remote filesystems).

The other advantage is that it becomes easier to work out what magic is being performed in drivers and software that is difficult to support under wine. If you can run a mostly complete system except for one driver it becomes a lot easier to reverse engineer that driver (there may be laws in some countries that make this impractical).

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Cooperative Linux 0.51

Posted Jan 26, 2004 2:02 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

As I understand it, Cooperative Linux doesn't include support to any hardware. I don't see how it could help with reverse engineering Windows drivers. Maybe I don't understand your idea.

On the other hand, Cooperative Linux may be very useful for Wine development. You could run the same program in Wine and natively on the same system. The are other ways to do it, but having one more would not hurt.