@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems
Post #4373798
2026-08-04 03:36 UTC
existence of Wine, Nix, and Wix implies the existence of Nine in the fourth, mysterious quadrant
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@darkling@mstdn.social 2026-08-04 10:17
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems So Wine emulates the Windows API, and Wix is a packager for Windows, where Nix is a packager for Linux. Then Nix and Wix are both about packaging, where Wine is about emulation, we can conclude (by extension) that Nine is a system for emulating the Linux API.