From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 102708 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2016 10:17:02 -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 102675 invoked by uid 89); 13 Apr 2016 10:17:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*p:D*net, H*f:sk:Fg1xaJr, H*i:sk:Fg1xaJr, Hx-languages-length:1074 X-HELO: BAY004-OMC1S14.hotmail.com Received: from bay004-omc1s14.hotmail.com (HELO BAY004-OMC1S14.hotmail.com) (65.54.190.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:16:51 +0000 Received: from BAY169-W93 ([65.54.190.60]) by BAY004-OMC1S14.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.23008); Wed, 13 Apr 2016 03:16:49 -0700 X-TMN: [gthbUqod/P4I4ZNHuGcTgJC6d8pm2kt8] Message-ID: From: Tony Kelman To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: RE: native Linux userland in Windows 10 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:17:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: References: <70rpgbh81o3fkrdgh8ldh2hmon25ihnr1s@4ax.com>, Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00299.txt.bz2 > 2016-04-12 14:50 GMT+02:00 Andrew Schulman is curious: >> >> Has anyone had a chance to try this new feature? Does it work as well as= is >> claimed? >> > > I will try ;) > > Here is how to: > > http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/04/howto-ubuntu-on-windows.html > > Gerrit I've been giving it a spin. Lots of things are broken or not yet implemented, still lots of problems at this stage. Apparently they already have fixes for some of the issues that have been reported at https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues but not rolled out to users yet. In its current form it could only possibly be a replacement for cygwin if you can get away with your only interoperation between cygwin and win32 executables or libraries being the /cygdrive mounted filesystem. Getting binaries straight from Ubuntu is a cool trick and will be really convenient once enough of the syscalls are working that you don't notice any gaps. I'd prefer a different distro's userland if I had a choice, but maybe that'll be possible later. -Tony =20=09=09=20=09=20=20=20=09=09=20=20 -- 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