Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Windows Store
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#2Is-it docker compatible?
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#3WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) isn't virtualized, as the article states.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs...
It's aim is to run Linux binaries natively. The degree of it's usefulness, issues and filesystem interoperability was discussed before so won't get into that.
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#4While I can see this is an excellent strategy for the Windows platform, and will probably make developers on Windows more productive, I for one will never give up natively installed linux distributions for development.
It may be childish, but I resent Windows for every anti-privacy, anti-competitive move they make, despite how much it is within their rights and fitting with their corporate goals. Trying to put linux in windows and pretend that they've been on the side of developers who push F/OSS this whole time is a hard pill to swallow.
I recoil at the possibility that some developer 5 years from now might ask me "Why bother installing your own linux distribution? You can just get Windows Go 15 and run Arch/Ubuntu/SUSE from inside there. Don't forget to disable the ads and tracking that come standard".
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#5Guess the only reason to have VMWare on my windows machine is going away soon.
Hope there are some reduction in computational overhead.
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#6Guess the only reason to have VMWare on my windows machine is going away soon. Hope there are some reduction in computational overhead.
This is something that bothers me on my current setup (Xubuntu on Virtualbox): LATENCY while using X. On the tty everything feels snappy but as soon as I use a graphic terminal, it feels choppy and typing feels sluggish. I'm not even using Unity because then it'd be just unusable..
Re: Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Windows Store
#7WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) isn't virtualized, as the article states. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs... It's aim is to run Linux binaries natively. The degree of it's usefulness, issues and filesystem interoperability was discussed before so won't get into that.
So it's sorta like a reverse WINE?
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#8Genuine question: Why not just virtualbox/vmware it up with an ISO ? That's how I've been doing for years and it works just fine.
Re: Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Windows Store
#9Is-it docker compatible?
Dockerd relies on kernel features like cgroups and namespaces so I doubt the docker daemon can run inside WSL. There is a docker daemon for windows that I believes uses hyperv as container runtime. You could probably run docker cli inside wsl if you could expose the socket on the host to it (guessing)
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#10While I can see this is an excellent strategy for the Windows platform, and will probably make developers on Windows more productive, I for one will never give up natively installed linux distributions for development. It may be childish, but I resent Windows for every anti-privacy, anti-competitive move they make, despite how much it is within their rights and fitting with their corporate goals. Trying to put linux…
On the other hand, we could be entering a phase where an open source developer might say "Why bother porting to Windows? Just target Arch/Ubuntu/SUSE."