Redstone 3 Creators Update for Windows 10 -- cygwin killer?

Redstone 3 Creators Update for Windows 10 -- cygwin killer?

[Freeman, Mr. Ion C.]

I’m very, very excited about the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Perplexingly, not one of my employers has asked me to work on a Unix user environment or Linux desktop since 1995, whereas nearly all of them have wanted their production code on a Unix or Linux system.

So, Cygwin has been a big part of my career. Thank you for all of your efforts.

I believe WSL is released and available to all Windows 10 users in Redstone 3, last month’s update. I think it should come to desktops in my enterprise next quarter – at least one corporation is not wasting any time* getting it on developers’ desktops. What does this mean for Cygwin?

http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-creators-update-adds-lots-of-new-bashwsl-features/

Ion Freeman

* In a relative sense. I know there are companies that upgrade OSs more quickly, or don’t attempt to control them at all, but you have to compare it with how long we had XP. Which is proprietary, but longer than you might think.

Re: Redstone 3 Creators Update for Windows 10 -- cygwin killer?

[cyg Simple]

On 11/3/2017 8:45 AM, Freeman, Mr. Ion C. wrote:
> I’m very, very excited about the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Perplexingly, not one of my employers has asked me to work on a Unix user environment or Linux desktop since 1995, whereas nearly all of them have wanted their production code on a Unix or Linux system.
> 
> So, Cygwin has been a big part of my career. Thank you for all of your efforts.
> 
> I believe WSL is released and available to all Windows 10 users in Redstone 3, last month’s update. I think it should come to desktops in my enterprise next quarter – at least one corporation is not wasting any time* getting it on developers’ desktops. What does this mean for Cygwin?
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-creators-update-adds-lots-of-new-bashwsl-features/
> 
> Ion Freeman
> 
> * In a relative sense. I know there are companies that upgrade OSs more quickly, or don’t attempt to control them at all, but you have to compare it with how long we had XP. Which is proprietary, but longer than you might think.
> 

So you expect that the Linux Subsystem is about to take over Cygwin?  Or
you feel that Windows is about to just be another distribution of Linux
with a different Windows version?  Does that really destroy Cygwin or
does it destroy Windows?  MS has just awakened to the fact that Linux is
taking over the entire world of computing?

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cyg Simple

Re: Redstone 3 Creators Update for Windows 10 -- cygwin killer?

[Barry Walker]

Hi all...

> > http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-creators-update-adds-lots-of-new-bashwsl-features/

> So you expect that the Linux Subsystem is about to take over Cygwin?  Or
> you feel that Windows is about to just be another distribution of Linux
> with a different Windows version?  Does that really destroy Cygwin or
> does it destroy Windows?  MS has just awakened to the fact that Linux is
> taking over the entire world of computing?

I think MS has a fair idea about the UNIX like environment from yesteryear:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

Is CygWin going to suffer? For the foreseeable future, probably not. But MS
does have intimate knowledge about undocumented parts of its proprietary OS that
it keeps hidden from public eyes and could well be of use in making everything
*NIX like run _much_ more quickly than through CygWin. Who knows?


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