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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 04/25/2026 14:34 EDT

Open Source Developer Brings Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME

Microsoft released the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" in 2016, adding an optional Linux environment into every operating system since Windows 10. But now an open source developer has brought Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, reports the blog It's FOSS, "with Linux kernel 6.19 running alongside the Windows 9x kernel, letting both operate on the same machine at the same time."

A virtual device driver handles initialization, loads the kernel off disk and manages the event loop for page faults an

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