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Is there anyway for me to get just bash binary to run? or build it from source and run it instead sign up for the insider program.
I tried to signed up as insider a few times on couple win 10 systems, failed and completely gave up on that.
I've been watching the whole Bash on Windows thing since it launched and it blows my mind in almost every possible way, the project has all the potential to make Windows a viable programming environment, specially for PHP and Ruby folks, which need to run Apache and all that stuff. It won't replace a full Linux install, but it might be enough for most use cases (it doesn't run X yet, for example). So virtual machines…
What do people actually use it for?
Bash for Windows is open source, right? Is there anyway for me to get just bash binary to run? or build it from source and run it instead sign up for the insider program. I tried to signed up as insider a few times on couple win 10 systems, failed and completely gave up on that.
What exactly are people using the linux shell for? It's fun, but given that you can't easily access windows files and you can't use it to run things like the visual C++ compiler you can't easily use it to script windows programs. What do people actually use it for?
I've been using Bash for Windows at work for a couple of months, and it's mostly been good enough that I don't need to fire up my ubuntu vm anymore. The biggest problem I've run into lately is that I really want to be able to run GUI-based programs, and even though that does worth with VcXWin, it's kind of crappy, especially for font rendering. Anyone know of a free (or cheap) x window server for windows that does an…
I wonder if MS finds a way to port open source Linux apps in Windows 10.
What exactly are people using the linux shell for? It's fun, but given that you can't easily access windows files and you can't use it to run things like the visual C++ compiler you can't easily use it to script windows programs. What do people actually use it for?
I've been using Bash for Windows at work for a couple of months, and it's mostly been good enough that I don't need to fire up my ubuntu vm anymore. The biggest problem I've run into lately is that I really want to be able to run GUI-based programs, and even though that does worth with VcXWin, it's kind of crappy, especially for font rendering. Anyone know of a free (or cheap) x window server for windows that does an…
I wonder if MS finds a way to port open source Linux apps in Windows 10.
I've been watching the whole Bash on Windows thing since it launched and it blows my mind in almost every possible way, the project has all the potential to make Windows a viable programming environment, specially for PHP and Ruby folks, which need to run Apache and all that stuff. It won't replace a full Linux install, but it might be enough for most use cases (it doesn't run X yet, for example). So virtual machines…