Fedora, Portable Edition?

[King InuYasha]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 19:43 -0500, King InuYasha wrote:
>
> > Perhaps we could bring something like that to Fedora? We seem to be
> > incorporating more interoperability features lately, and I think this
> > would bring us quite a bit closer to that. Also it lets people try out
> > Fedora without rebooting or using a costly virtual machine. Even
> > better, this brings in the ability to run native Linux binaries on
> > Windows because it is running under the Linux kernel process.
> > Interestingly enough, this could also result in being able to do stuff
> > like side by side testing of Wine vs Windows of the same program.
>
> I've been toying with the idea of just porting Fedora packages to Win32.
> But considering what little luck I've had compiling rpm against uclibc I
> don't have high hopes for getting it to compile with mingw let alone
> run...
>
> Using a native Win32 GTK/QT would make the whole X server problem
> moot...
>
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There is a native Xlib for Win32 that doesn't use Xserver, libW11 (
http://libw11.sf.net) which is supposed to be compatible with libX11 and
translating those calls into GDI.
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