From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17357 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2016 13:35:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17320 invoked by uid 89); 27 Oct 2016 13:35:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:975bad9, Hx-languages-length:938, H*R:D*cygwin.com, HX-Priority:Normal X-HELO: forward12h.cmail.yandex.net Received: from forward12h.cmail.yandex.net (HELO forward12h.cmail.yandex.net) (87.250.230.154) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:35:27 +0000 Received: from smtp3p.mail.yandex.net (smtp3p.mail.yandex.net [77.88.29.86]) by forward12h.cmail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 16AA420CE6 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:35:24 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp3p.mail.yandex.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp3p.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 41628132000B; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:35:22 +0300 (MSK) Received: by smtp3p.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id 0iJmMg5gQm-ZLfeVIro; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:35:21 +0300 (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) Authentication-Results: smtp3p.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru X-Yandex-ForeignMX: US X-Yandex-Suid-Status: 1 114401,1 0 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:22:00 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:42:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1301901761.20161027162200@yandex.ru> To: Evgeny Grin , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin? In-Reply-To: <975bad9f-792c-4be5-ac2a-70c9bbe7efd4@yandex.ru> References: <975bad9f-792c-4be5-ac2a-70c9bbe7efd4@yandex.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00279.txt.bz2 Greetings, Evgeny Grin! > With latest Window Insider preview it's possible to run Linux command > from cmd, Windows commands from bash and even use input-output redirects! > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/10/19/windows-and-ubuntu-interoperability/ > Seems that WSL also automatically translate \r\n<->\n. Which will break a lot of tools not expecting this kind oh "help". > There still no (official) way to run GUI with WSL. > Is Cygwin still better for something? Did they fixed the user mappings? > I understand that WSL and Cygwin are completely different approaches, > but from user perspective both are kind of sets of GNU/Linux commands > and both are using some intermediate layer (cygwin1.dll or LXSS). WSL requires Windows 10. End of story. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, October 27, 2016 16:20:53 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple