From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 68462 invoked by alias); 29 Aug 2016 12:06:46 -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 68445 invoked by uid 89); 29 Aug 2016 12:06:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_MXURI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=UD:aol.com, prince, Prince, UD:mx.aol.com X-HELO: omr-m018e.mx.aol.com Received: from omr-m018e.mx.aol.com (HELO omr-m018e.mx.aol.com) (204.29.186.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:06:35 +0000 Received: from mtaout-mac01.mx.aol.com (mtaout-mac01.mx.aol.com [172.26.222.205]) by omr-m018e.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id 09FE23800095 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:06:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.200.215] (unknown [208.102.155.215]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout-mac01.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPSA id 40CEF3800008A for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:06:32 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: tprince@computer.org Subject: Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux References: To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Tim Prince Message-ID: <9a99e8fc-9f68-d967-6011-71d922bd13e6@aol.com> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:17:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-aol-global-disposition: G x-aol-sid: 3039ac1adecd57c42548013f X-AOL-IP: 208.102.155.215 X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00577.txt.bz2 On 8/29/2016 7:15 AM, Ray Donnelly wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Schwarz, Konrad > wrote: >> So I was wondering if the Windows Subsystem For Linux, apparently part of Windows 10 Anniversary Update, obsoletes Cygwin. >> > That seems a *little* inflammatory to me. Since Windows Subsystem for > Linux can't inter-operate with Windows very well, no it doesn't. Although the Ubuntu subsystem doesn't provide a current gcc, it's possible to build one now in the Anniversary version. Attempting to run the g++ testsuite hangs the subsystem, requiring a reboot. It is possible to run other individual test suites in parallel in separate bash sessions, unlike under cygwin. I've been wondering whether any conclusions might be drawn from the relative performance of cygwin and linux subsystem. Disk and internet access appear slow in the subsystem, but math functions and OpenMP seem to perform better under linux. As Win10 works on only one of my 3 Windows installations (the oldest box), it doesn't look to be a replacement any time soon. For just one example, the Ubuntu vim isn't nearly as convenient as I've become used to. > Tim Prince -- 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