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WSL9x Hacks Linux Into Ancient Windows 9x Systems

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: 'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination

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A Linux running in a Windows 95, you're not dreaming since a solo developer named Hailey Somerville, has released WSL9x, a "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux" that pushes even further the logic of Microsoft with WSL. The thing works with a simple wsl command typed in the MS-DOS terminal, which opens a Linux pseudo-terminal in the middle of your Windows 9x. For ANSI colors, you'll have to load a driver like nnansi.com (it's not a domain name right..…

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Korben broke the news on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
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