great idea

[taxueliuyun]

The idea is great, why give up?

[saulius-krasuckas]

Maybe it's not about giving up? Quoting the FAQ:

Q7. Some functionality still does not work or is not implemented. Why?

coLinux is still in its early development stage. Although it is usable, we have not yet implemented some parts of it.

Q27. Does coLinux work under 64-bit Windows

The answer is: No.
It's being worked on but there appears to be a fair bit of work to do yet.

There are now versions of TAP and WinPCAP that will install on 64 bit systems, however

• You can't find an x64 version of 'linux.sys', because lots of code needs to review.

Sorry to dissapoint, when it's ready coLinux will really be able to benefit from systems with > 4Gb RAM.

Maybe it's about:

• having only low priorities assigned to the project?
• Or just a too small development power available?
• Having a complex and fragile architecture?
• Missing skills to port the Windows kernel driver code to 64-bits?
• Windows driver development world being unfriendly or even hostile?
  (Remember, earlier running 3rd party 64-bit drivers required signing them, which had a quite high cost).

[Goodwu]

Maybe because there's replacements: WSL1 & WSL2.

[tigerinus]

WSL1 is over slow and WSL2 is over complicated.

I used CoLinux about 12 years ago and was very impressed. I wish CoLinux can be picked up again.

[yokiautummoon]

Maybe because there's replacements: WSL1 & WSL2.

wsl1 without linux kernel, and wsl2 just hyperv-vm no original sys