What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

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Post by yomritoyj » Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 4:40 AM UTC

What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
blogs.msdn.microsoft.com

Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

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Post by jjcm » Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 6:04 AM UTC

As usual lovely to see headway on this. With the networking improvements I'm hoping mosh will be supported natively. Excited to try this out.

Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

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Post by badminton1 » Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 6:08 AM UTC

Bash for Windows... Bash is a Unix shell. Linux is an operating system. Completely different concepts.

Bash on Windows has existed for decades now, through Cygwin. https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fba...

Trying to reduce the entire GNU/Linux ecosystem to "Bash" is insulting to the community you are trying to appeal to:

Linux is an immensely large and complex project, which has millions of lines of code. The GNU part of GNU/Linux has a couple of more millions of lines of code as well. Bash is small in comparison.

Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

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Post by aerovistae » Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 6:11 AM UTC

badminton1 wrote: post #3

Bash for Windows... Bash is a Unix shell. Linux is an operating system. Completely different concepts. Bash on Windows has existed for decades now, through Cygwin. https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fba... Trying to reduce the entire GNU/Linux ecosystem to "Bash" is insulting to the community you are trying to appeal to: Linux is an immensely large and complex project, which has millions of line…

Microsoft adds this amazing set of features and the only response you have is "your name is insulting the people you're trying to appeal to"? "Trying"? As if they're failing? Do you know how much people love this project?

Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

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Post by struppi » Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 6:12 AM UTC

Ok, this is awesome, if everything works as advertised.

I have been mostly a Linux user for quite some time - at least on my own computer, clients always have Windows. But this year I bought a Surface Pro as a secondary device.

I first evaluated WSL and really liked it, but I switched to Hyper+Git Bash because networking in node.js was not working properly, and because I could not start Windows programs from the command line.

Now, if both problems are really fixed now, I guess I will switch back to WSL, and maybe uninstall Hyper+Git Bash later (given that I do not find any other show stoppers)...

Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

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Post by badminton1 » Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 6:14 AM UTC

aerovistae wrote: post #4

badminton1 wrote: post #3

Bash for Windows... Bash is a Unix shell. Linux is an operating system. Completely different concepts. Bash on Windows has existed for decades now, through Cygwin. https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fba... Trying to reduce the entire GNU/Linux ecosystem to "Bash" is insulting to the community you are trying to appeal to: Linux is an immensely large and complex project, which has millions of line…

Microsoft adds this amazing set of features and the only response you have is "your name is insulting the people you're trying to appeal to"? "Trying"? As if they're failing? Do you know how much people love this project?

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Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 6:16 AM UTC

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Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

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Post by vn0m » Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 6:17 AM UTC

This is truly amazing. GG Microsoft.

Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

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Post by laumars » Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 6:21 AM UTC

badminton1 wrote: post #3

Bash for Windows... Bash is a Unix shell. Linux is an operating system. Completely different concepts. Bash on Windows has existed for decades now, through Cygwin. https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fba... Trying to reduce the entire GNU/Linux ecosystem to "Bash" is insulting to the community you are trying to appeal to: Linux is an immensely large and complex project, which has millions of line…

Your entry point to WSL is bash and while you may be able to compile and install other shells, calling it "bash" isn't too far from the truth.

Really the awkwardness of the naming is more of a testament to the power of scripting on Unix-like OSs (eg how scripting is a first class citizen and how most of the ecosystem is modelled around CLI, and thus scripting, support) more than it is an insult.

As for cygwin, that was simply terrible. MinGW was better but WSL is already better than both and it's still a long way from feature parity.

Of course some MS haters will always find a way to fault this, and i can sympathise with that point too because I've been burnt my MS too and thus, as much as i found WSL to be a much needed addition to Windows, I'm still going to stick with Linux as my primary OS. However personal biases of Windows aside, even i have to admit that WSL is a pretty good feature.

Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

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Post by pavlov » Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 6:23 AM UTC

badminton1 wrote: post #6

aerovistae wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft adds this amazing set of features and the only response you have is "your name is insulting the people you're trying to appeal to"? "Trying"? As if they're failing? Do you know how much people love this project?

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The downvote you got from me didn't need to be coordinated. You're trolling.