From: David Given on
Yes, finally you both get to know why I've been asking all those weird
questions over the past couple of months!

LBW is a Linux binary loader that runs on Windows (currently only 32-bit
Windows XP). It translates Linux system calls into Windows ones, using
Interix to do the heavy lifting. It supports both static and dynamic
binaries.

While it's very much a work in progress it's good enough to run a Debian
chroot, downloading and installing packages with apt and dpkg, compiling
and running programs with gcc, connecting to remote servers with ssh,
and even running some basic X applications. Performance isn't brilliant,
but I have ideas why and how to fix it.

The web page, where you can get an installer package and the source
code, is here:

http://lbw.sourceforge.net/

I'd like to say thanks to the help I got from c.o.m-w.p.win32 and c.u.p;
it helped considerably!

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