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Jailing "Linux" Inside Microsoft Excel, Inside Windows, and More
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Developer gets GNU/Linux running inside Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Excel, 'mostly for fun'
Holy sheet!
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Linux Magazine ☛ Arch GNU/Linux Available for backdoored Windows Subsystem for Linux [Ed: This is an attack on Linux and promotion of Windows]
If you've ever wanted to use a rolling release distribution with WSL, now's your chance.
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More of the same:
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Someone tried, and mostly managed, to run Linux in an Excel spreadsheet
As the "can it run Doom" phenomenon clearly demonstrates, people will try to do the weirdest things with extensible, accessible software platforms and applications. Excel, a program with powerful computation capabilities that's been around for almost 40 years, is no different. And it can seemingly run Linux.
A lone developer known as "NSG650" recently unveiled the Linux In Excel project, which, as you might guess, forces the Linux kernel to run within a Microsoft Excel environment.