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Can I use Docker?
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Can I use LXC/LXD ?
Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
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Re: Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
#32I've been using Docker for my dev environment (Python, Django, Postgres, etc). I expose a folder with my code to the Docker container so I can keep editing the code on Windows using Sublime. One thing that has been annoying me is the fact that I can't get Python code completion on sublime because Python and the packages are in the container.
Does anyone know if it's possible to point Sublime to the Linux subsystem and get code completion? Also, has anyone tried installing Tensorflow yet?
Re: Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
#33What a time to be alive! I'm holding out on upgrading to Win10 until I buy a new PC since my 7 -> 10 upgrade ties to hardware, but I hope to have that done by the end of next month. I can't wait to try this out. edit: Specifically, I want to understand to what extent - if any - will it allow some of the horror problems you have working with certain Python libraries (compiling Numpy on Windows is like pulling teeth) t…
If anything it's going to make it worse. When you type python in a command prompt which version is going to run, the windows version or the Ubuntu version? Even worse when you pip install a package what pip are you running, windows or Ubuntu? Python on Windows is painful mostly because of the amount of binary packages that have to be compiled since distributing binary packages hasn't been in vogue until only recently…
Command prompt should run the windows version and bash should run the linux version. Why would there be an issue here?
Re: Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
#34So, if I understand correctly, one can now run Docker containers "natively" on Windows?
This is not the case. Depending on your definition of native you could run Docker containers on Windows even before this. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...
No, that doesn't suit my definition of native. ;)
Too bad, that would really be a game changer for me. Running bash itself though... yeah, ok, whatever. But maybe I'm not the target audience.
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If anything it's going to make it worse. When you type python in a command prompt which version is going to run, the windows version or the Ubuntu version? Even worse when you pip install a package what pip are you running, windows or Ubuntu? Python on Windows is painful mostly because of the amount of binary packages that have to be compiled since distributing binary packages hasn't been in vogue until only recently…
Command prompt should run the windows version and bash should run the linux version. Why would there be an issue here?
Exactly. The Linux file system will have Windows mounted into it but I think Windows won't be able to see the Linux filesystem. We will see.
Re: Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
#36I can confirm that you can run (at least some) GUI apps if you start an X server on Windows (like Xming, etc.), and export DISPLAY.
yay! \o/ can you check what happens after you wake from sleep/hibernation? are those apps still fully functioning?
I did not try GUI stuff, but when my tablet went to sleep while executing a long-running command, when I returned to the bash shell, the command failed with a message stating "interrupted syscall" or the like. Not sure if this is the common/intended behaviour.
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#37So 2016 is _finally_ the year of Linux on the Desktop?
No, Linux on the Desktop has just died. I expect both the KDE and Gnome projects dead within a (very few) years, probably X.org close behind.
All hail Winux though. (That's the name for this mix I came up with.)
Before you downvote this without thinking ... consider, for example, KDE is severely understaffed and this will deplete them further. Who will bother with X.org bugs and drivers now? What's the point? Who is your target audience? You need to drink a real big dose of Stallman kool-aid to continue with Linux if this thing on Windows works as promised.
I have been using Linux solely on my laptop since 2004. I am sick of the constant driver problems. Yes, yes, you can connect to your home router or the router in the cafe. Now go and try and connect to an enterprise network. Perhaps with VPN.
Re: Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
#38I've been using Docker for my dev environment (Python, Django, Postgres, etc). I expose a folder with my code to the Docker container so I can keep editing the code on Windows using Sublime. One thing that has been annoying me is the fact that I can't get Python code completion on sublime because Python and the packages are in the container. Does anyone know if it's possible to point Sublime to the Linux subsystem an…
from previous posts it looks like the linux image is just a folder in your AppData somewhere, so it should be trivial.
Re: Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
#39So 2016 is _finally_ the year of Linux on the Desktop?
This brings many of the parts that make up Ubuntu to Windows, but the Linux kernel isn't one of them.
That being said, I'm typing this comment my workstation running Linux and I for one am getting very tired of this year of the Linux desktop joke.
What OS you run is an individual choice, stop trying to declare a single winner.
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Can I use Docker?
Linux docker? I doubt it--there's a lot of low level kernel stuff docker needs like creating a chroot. That said MS has been working on a docker version for Windows. I dunno if they ever released many details on what exactly it is though, it's been a while since I've much from them on it.
Hm, ok, but that's "just" syscalls, right? Anyway, that would REALLY be cool. Hope they make it.