WSL for Win9x

[awkduck]

WSL9x is now a thing.

However, it doesn't seem extremely useful.

For now "and maybe forever" there is no network bridge, and it can only access hardware through Windows.

Would be neat if it could have used the extra cores, that Win9x cannot. Unless there is some networking capacity (between the two kernels) there isn't likely a way to run an X client in Windows, that could connect to an Xserver in Linux.

Maybe added features will eventually exist; but there is a good chance this was a "proof of concept" or "nostalgia"  work.

[Nokiamies]

One you linked does not work since that site also treat anyone as bot by default. Link to main repo works: https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x/ . I love when site tells to get out and says you are bot by default, I generally put those sites to my hall of shame. Yes I know bot crawling is big problem but I hate when they break everything thinking they can outsmart developers. I am pretty sure scrapers are laughing at countermeasures like that.

 

Enough rambling, that seems to be nice for getting some non networking unix utils to run under Windows 9x.

2 hours ago, awkduck said:

For now "and maybe forever" there is no network bridge, and it can only access hardware through Windows.

Would be neat if it could have used the extra cores, that Win9x cannot. Unless there is some networking capacity (between the two kernels) there isn't likely a way to run an X client in Windows, that could connect to an Xserver in Linux.

That is daydream for anyone who fiddles with both systems daily. With Xserver could do lot of things. You can run standalone X server in Windows 95 and pass it to modern Linux/Unix box using ssh via putty win32old branch. That one I can personally confirm to work down to Windows 95 OSR2 just fine. Xserver I know to work under Windows 95 that I used long ago was MicroImages Xserver. That might be little outdated and there is likely better options for Windows 95 too just been long time since played with them.