From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: native Linux userland in Windows 10
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <570CF112.6060405@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70rpgbh81o3fkrdgh8ldh2hmon25ihnr1s@4ax.com>
On 12/04/2016 14:50, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> By now I guess most of us have seen the reports of bash, and in fact a full
> Linux userland, running natively in Windows 10:
>
> http://www.osnews.com/story/29149/Microsoft_and_Canonical_partner_to_bring_Ubuntu_to_Windows_10
> http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx
> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html
>
> It's in beta release and doesn't seem to have been widely tested yet. Apparently
> Microsoft has developed an API translation layer, simliar to the Cygwin DLL, to
> make this work. But unlike with Cygwin, Linux apps don't have to be rebuilt -
> they can run natively as-is in Windows 10. So you can get, allegedly, the full
> Linux userland out-of-the-box.
>
> The first link cited above suggests that if this is all it claims to be, it
> would remove the need for Cygwin. I can see the point.
>
> Has anyone had a chance to try this new feature? Does it work as well as is
> claimed?
>
> I realize this may be strictly off-topic here, but it seems to me to be
> potentially so important to the future of Cygwin that it's worth discussing here
> insted of on cygwin-talk.
>
> Andrew
Before W10 became the standard it will take some time.
Considering the previous history of Microsoft with
Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) , my feeling is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeo_Danaos_et_dona_ferentes
If they really would like to port Unix on MS, it will be enough to
provide Corinna with a simple way to implement fork....
Regards
Marco
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-12 12:51 Andrew Schulman
2016-04-12 12:59 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2016-04-12 13:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-04-12 14:41 ` Philip Daniels
2016-04-12 14:54 ` wilson
2016-04-12 17:01 ` Andrew Schulman
2016-04-12 19:22 ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-12 22:08 ` Warren Young
2016-04-13 15:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-13 18:21 ` John Cowan
2016-04-14 0:14 ` John Cowan
2016-04-14 1:05 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 3:06 ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-14 18:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 14:50 ` Warren Young
2016-04-14 15:08 ` Alexey Sokolov
2016-04-14 17:35 ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-14 18:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 18:37 ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-14 18:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-12 17:37 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-13 0:12 ` Andrew Schulman
2016-04-13 5:02 ` Herbert Stocker
2016-04-12 17:42 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-13 5:20 ` Herbert Stocker
2016-04-13 9:41 ` Gerrit Haase
2016-04-13 10:17 ` Tony Kelman
2016-04-15 11:12 ` Tobias Zawada
2016-04-15 16:48 ` John Cowan
2016-04-13 12:56 KARL BOTTS
2016-04-13 13:21 ` John Cowan
2016-04-14 15:58 ` Warren Young
2016-04-14 17:18 ` Andrew Schulman
2016-04-14 19:20 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 19:26 ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-14 20:40 ` John Cowan
2016-04-14 22:50 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 23:34 ` John Cowan
2016-04-15 10:05 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-15 16:27 ` John Cowan
2016-04-17 21:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 23:09 ` Warren Young
2016-04-14 23:53 ` John Cowan
2016-04-15 10:05 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-20 22:23 ` Warren Young
2016-04-21 11:56 ` David Macek
2016-04-21 16:31 ` John Cowan
2016-04-22 8:04 ` David Macek
2016-04-22 8:40 ` Steven Hartland
2016-04-22 4:37 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 20:49 ` John Cowan
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