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Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

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Re: Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

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That's one low quality video, and to add insult to injury they're posted on Facebook. Here's a better quality video on Channel9: https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Windows/Windows-Developer-D... Same start time of ~17:00 mins in.

Thanks. Sorry about the bad quality link, I got it from their Twitter account. I'd rather just see it on their own site or YT/Vimeo too.

Re: Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

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This is coming to Windows stable in April: - vt sequences fixed (so stuff like colored output, midnight commander, etc work and the terminal doesn't screw up) - Elixir and Go work - Also Postgres and MySQL - You can launch Windows apps from bash. - inotify works - Visual Studio can compile with GNU/Linux C/C++ tools, gdb, linker etc There's some recent fast ring info on: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2…

> - You can launch Windows apps from bash. So I can basically do `code .` from inside bash and it will open VS Code in the linux sub-system folder? That's amazing!

Just for reference, I've been doing this for a few months now. I'm not sure what's changed, but you'll need ubuntu 16 (you can uninstall 14 and reinstall WSL to get it) in WSL to do it.

Re: Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

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Not since Windows 2000 have I been so interested in an upgrade to a new Windows release. Only at work do I have to suffer through Windows, but this would make things much nicer there. I hope/pray that readline and/or editline work correctly on bash et al? Do Windows CI services like Appveyor support WSL? If so I would hope that deploying to windows for lots of high level software is relatively painless. Head scratche…

I think they mean launching Windows-side apps from the Bash CLI.

This had nothing specifically to do with Notepad, I would bet they just used it as a simple example.

Re: Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

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Not since Windows 2000 have I been so interested in an upgrade to a new Windows release. Only at work do I have to suffer through Windows, but this would make things much nicer there. I hope/pray that readline and/or editline work correctly on bash et al? Do Windows CI services like Appveyor support WSL? If so I would hope that deploying to windows for lots of high level software is relatively painless. Head scratche…

I think this means that you can finally run EXEs in an easy way, directly from WSL. Without installing cbwin.

Basically this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38920710/how-can-a-run-wi...

Re: Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

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This is coming to Windows stable in April: - vt sequences fixed (so stuff like colored output, midnight commander, etc work and the terminal doesn't screw up) - Elixir and Go work - Also Postgres and MySQL - You can launch Windows apps from bash. - inotify works - Visual Studio can compile with GNU/Linux C/C++ tools, gdb, linker etc There's some recent fast ring info on: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2…

> - You can launch Windows apps from bash. So I can basically do `code .` from inside bash and it will open VS Code in the linux sub-system folder? That's amazing!

This is actually the (previously) missing feature that was preventing me from fully diving into Win10 + Bash.. very happy to see this

Re: Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

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Not since Windows 2000 have I been so interested in an upgrade to a new Windows release. Only at work do I have to suffer through Windows, but this would make things much nicer there. I hope/pray that readline and/or editline work correctly on bash et al? Do Windows CI services like Appveyor support WSL? If so I would hope that deploying to windows for lots of high level software is relatively painless. Head scratche…

The idea is that you can probably open the file from other windows programs (like Sublime text).

For a while, it was impossible for windows programs and WSL content to mix (and if you could somwehow do it, it was highly discouraged).

But that's no longer the case. Notepad is just an example to prove this point.

Re: Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

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post #11
post #3

That's one low quality video, and to add insult to injury they're posted on Facebook. Here's a better quality video on Channel9: https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Windows/Windows-Developer-D... Same start time of ~17:00 mins in.

Thanks. Sorry about the bad quality link, I got it from their Twitter account. I'd rather just see it on their own site or YT/Vimeo too.

I guess you're past the edit window now to be able to update?

Re: Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

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post #2

This is coming to Windows stable in April: - vt sequences fixed (so stuff like colored output, midnight commander, etc work and the terminal doesn't screw up) - Elixir and Go work - Also Postgres and MySQL - You can launch Windows apps from bash. - inotify works - Visual Studio can compile with GNU/Linux C/C++ tools, gdb, linker etc There's some recent fast ring info on: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2…

Wow those are some pretty significant updates!

I've loved the idea of bash-on-windows but it was missing just enough that it wasn't worth it moving away from my current love affair with the "git bash" system I'm using.

With these changes, it looks like I'll be jumping ship when it comes to stable!

Great work to everyone involved!

Re: Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

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Now all we need is a first-party X server...

Any particular issues you've got with the existing third-party ones? I don't honestly use them often (I just work on the Windows side for 99%+ of the GUI stuff I need to do), but I've not had any issues with Xming, even on a HiDPI display.
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