jaclaz Posted March 30, 2016 Posted March 30, 2016 Maybe:http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-canonical-partner-to-bring-ubuntu-to-windows-10/ Deja-vu:http://www.colinux.org/ jaclaz
xper Posted March 30, 2016 Posted March 30, 2016 Quote It also seems unlikely that Ubuntu will be bringing its Unity interface with it. Instead the focus will be on Bash and other CLI tools, such as make, gawk and grep. Well... Only Command Line Interface tools. We have SecureCRT SSH for that.
xper Posted March 31, 2016 Posted March 31, 2016 Smart move from MS, imho. Imagine, both Windows and Linux on one machine at the same time. Even Linux users now have reason to install Windows :-)
helpdesk98 Posted March 31, 2016 Posted March 31, 2016 well this is one feature that I am actually interested in when it comes to Windows 10! I hope they do good things with it. -Helpdesk98
greenhillmaniac Posted March 31, 2016 Posted March 31, 2016 The only anouncement from Build 2016 I'm looking forward. Finally, I can program on one OS!!!
NoelC Posted April 17, 2016 Posted April 17, 2016 Are there geeks amongst us who haven't had the power of Unix-like tools on Windows up to now? Cough *gnuwin32 toolkit* cough. -Noel
bookie32 Posted April 20, 2016 Posted April 20, 2016 I think it is a sad day if the Linux community are going to collaborate with Microsoft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is bad enough that Microfoft produce crap....what is their intention now?!!! What could the Linux community possibly gain by this venture?!!!!!! The sad thing is some will actually think this is a good thing....?!!!!!!!!! Thank god Canonical doesn't speak for the whole Linux community Can't believe that Mark Shuttleworth would want to get in to bed with the Microsoft cretins... bookie32
helpdesk98 Posted April 21, 2016 Posted April 21, 2016 (edited) I can see it being both good and bad, but trying to focus on the positives for now :-) . @NoelC what about cygwin? read about it a while back some how allowing Linux software to run in some shape or form on Windows. edit: I did a quick google search and found it provides simular functionality using GNU and Open source tools Link: cygwin Edited April 21, 2016 by helpdesk98 did some research invalidated what I said.
jaclaz Posted April 21, 2016 Author Posted April 21, 2016 well, to be fair, besides Cygwin and a number of Windows NT "ports" of *nix tools through either Cygwin or MinGW/MSys, there has been (since the dawn of time or nearly so) the SFU/SUA/Interix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX More info:http://www.unix.com/answers-to-frequently-asked-questions/16634-unix-environments-ms-windows.html UNofficial FAQ's (through Wayback Machine): https://web.archive.org/web/20081206232550/http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/FAQs.aspx And original download page:https://web.archive.org/web/20100825232119/http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=896c9688-601b-44f1-81a4-02878ff11778&displaylang=en https://web.archive.org/web/20150602193831/http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/1/c/a1ca7af1-a6e3-46e7-874a-4c5d8c0fb3b7/SFU35SEL_EN.exe Unless there is something really *new* in the way the new thingy works (which I hope) the good MS guys are simply re-addding what they removed in 8/8.1 and later. jaclaz
jaclaz Posted April 24, 2016 Author Posted April 24, 2016 Some more info, from the mouth of the wolf:https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subsystem-for-linux-overview/ jaclaz
NoelC Posted April 25, 2016 Posted April 25, 2016 So does this add compatibility that wasn't there before? And is there a latent load of Linux applications that PC users are dying to make use of? Maybe this is growing up into a way to run Android stuff? -Noel
HarryTri Posted April 25, 2016 Posted April 25, 2016 If you search "android on windows" in Google you will find a plethora of ways to do it.
vinifera Posted April 26, 2016 Posted April 26, 2016 so all good in this linux on winblows 10 is maybe for linux users that wanna play windows games ?
allen2 Posted April 27, 2016 Posted April 27, 2016 The real good new is that it should be a native port of bash not an emulated version of bash like cygwin. As i used both cygwin or (unixtools) to script on windows servers, i can tell that it could improve a lot scripting on windows. Anyway as it is MS they may still render it useless just like they did with powershell.
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