I wonder if it will work with d3d9.dll and gallium nine. I'd like to see a D3D9 demo as a Linux ELF.
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Ohh thanks Travis. This is what I always wanted.
Hmm it would be fun to test it out though
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looks like the end of Microsoft not having there code audited by a third party we can now completely see what a DLL is doing and how it will respond to attacks on it. we can also finally start working backwards to build a wrapper that is more complete than anything else before it. if pulled into wine we could finally run nearly any program made to only work with windows finally run in Linux. 
Travis your either a genius or you have one heck of a great team. i can see this being used by google in there newest chrome OS as well.
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I know it is not the same thing but Valve, well over a year ago, demoed a dx9 wrapper that converted to openGL and provided faster performance than native dx9 in some cases.
It dissapeard after that same fandom happening here. Never heard of it again. Potentially hundreds of games to use it on and it was disappeared after a few valve demos on their own games.
So this is cool but like all cool open source things I just don't expect to ever see this put to real use.
Sounds like maybe they pulled it so they could develop a flatpack-style win wrapper for Linux. If they could make that work, it'd open almost the entire steam library to Linux, instantly. No waiting on wine or ports.
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And it seemed that's exactly what they did, it was certainly their intention. Ownership was one problem, Valve could not mass redistribute games that are not theirs for platform they were never intended for, but it never even got that far.
Seems odd and I am missing something for sure but it worked and now it is gone.
EDIT: Okay it worked, for Valve. Basically they made it work with Dota 2 and called it a day, no further work or improvement. It is now opensource on github and I guess, other than dota 2, unusable or we would have seen some adoption of this by now.
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I read the article link here and I have one question the article didn't clear up for me. Can we now get Windows Defender to work natively in Linux? If it is true we can get Windows Defender to work natively in Linux, where and how would you setup this up?
Why would you want to is the real question. Would windows defender actually even do anything onLlinux other than just run to display on screen, surely the file types are all incompatible for it to scan, and the vulnerabilities would be different from what defender is looking for.
The Github for this is linked in the article so check there for the code download.
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I will say that in the couple years I have been on Linux fulltime, I no longer need Windows 3/4th of the time. Battlefield4 and Warframe are the only reasons to still Windows.
Check out the github link below
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Actually I think it's a great idea to possibly sandbox the application and do some hardcore testing against it.
That is the main focus. Getting windows stuff to work on Linux with out a lot of support and porting chunks of the Win OS does not sound super useful yet to the end user running applications naively. It looks like Defender is reasonably kept to itself and not dependent on a lot of subsystems.
But for games which a lot of people will want from this, well that needs the DX systems ported along with a few others, unless you are going to run the game native and still translate to OpenGL somehow in which case why? Just use Wine.
I an looking for some sort of anti virus program to check for viruses in my email client on Linux. I have since reread the article and have found out it won't do what I wanted. Can anyone else recommend an anti virus program that will check my incoming email for viruses that runs natively on Linux.
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Just a start, I am not read up on Linux so there is probably more. A question in the Linux subforum here should turn up some results. Do a forum search first, I think this may have come up before.
Does this support virus definition updates too?
thanks guys for the suggestions.
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i use clamav my self on my pfsence fire wall and on my ubuntu machines to monitor the email boxes.. also clamav is used in a windows av system that works well http://www.immunet.com/