Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

For a second I thought github has updated to a clean and usable user interface. Then I realized that it's codeberg / forgejo ^^

Whoa, 128MB of RAM on the Pentium, somebody is living LARGE. Almost hard to imagine 128MB of RAM in a Windows 95/98 box.

I'm heartened that recent Linux kernels in 2026 can still target i386 systems!

Between i486, i586 and i686 there's been a steady drumbeat of Linux distros and kernel itself deprecating support

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861270

> Proudly written without AI.

Love it!

Shouldn’t this be “Linux Subsystem for Windows 9x”?

Could the be a good "mom and pop" OS to reduce (remote) IT maintenance workload for geeks from parent "clients"?

The perfect OS doesn’t exi-

I cannot imagine why someone would like Windows 9x enough to use it, let alone develop something so complicated for it.

It seems similar to colinux.

If this had existed in the mid/late 90s so many things would have turned out differently.

Can it run a Linux subsystem?

The idea is quite cool. How practical is it though? Last time I used a Win9x system or Win2k was ... many, many years ago.

Now run wine inside it to get support for newer programs :)

Windows fans, like being a Mustang or Corvette fan, represent arrested development in last centuries technology...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

Stop spamming plzkthxbai ^-^

And writing "Proudly written without AI." in README.md now is new black?