The important question of course is: when it will appear in Windows Server?
Incidentally, I've found the Windows 2012R2 to be my favorite OS for the desktop from the Windows family.
Ubuntu on Windows
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Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally doable. Use KVM to virtualize Windows and (the important part) make sure your CPU and motherboard support VT-d. Then you can pass a graphics card (separate from the one you run Linux with, naturally) to the VM and get >95% of native performance. There's lots of videos of folks doing this.
That's still "VM" not "Native". You aren't running them "side by side"... you are running them "One inside the other". Not exactly an apple-to-apple comparison.
The performance hit is so negligible on modern hardware that the distinction doesn't really matter.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#53A few random thoughts: - Wow, hell is really freezing over! - The hardest part of running bash and other posix things under windows is filesystem access. Windows uses drive letters and backslashes, unix has a root filesystem with forward slashes. It seems they are taking the same route as cygwin by "mounting" windows drives in /mnt/c (or /cygdrive/c). - If you just wanted bash and some posix tools, the harder but nic…
I expect they implemented a subsystem for Linux at the syscall level - i.e. they implemented the Linux kernel's interface at the ABI level. No headers would need to intermingle with open source; compile on Linux, run on Windows.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#54A few random thoughts: - Wow, hell is really freezing over! - The hardest part of running bash and other posix things under windows is filesystem access. Windows uses drive letters and backslashes, unix has a root filesystem with forward slashes. It seems they are taking the same route as cygwin by "mounting" windows drives in /mnt/c (or /cygdrive/c). - If you just wanted bash and some posix tools, the harder but nic…
> It seems they are taking the same route as cygwin by "mounting" windows drives in /mnt/c (or /cygdrive/c).
I wonder if this Unix filesystem layer will be able to break the Windows legacy path length limit. If so, the Linux version of Node.js will suddenly become much more useful than the Windows version.
> It remains to be seen if this is better (more performant) or worse
Sounds like performance, at least, will be better. TFA says "it's totally shit hot! The sysbench utility is showing nearly equivalent cpu, memory, and io performance." I'll reserve judgment until I see the fork() benchmarks. :)
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#55Wondering if ansible will work...
If done right - I fell desktop linux and OSX market share will shrink
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#56How do they handle various NTFS related issues? https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#57Are posix permissions supported/emulated? Or are they set to 777 for all Windows drives in /mnt like shared folders in a VM?
Yeah, that's something that really interests me. Likewise I want to know how extended attributes and streams are mapped.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#58> All of your Windows drives, like C: are mounted read/write directly under /mnt.
Its the real deal lads, congratulation Microsoft.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally doable. Use KVM to virtualize Windows and (the important part) make sure your CPU and motherboard support VT-d. Then you can pass a graphics card (separate from the one you run Linux with, naturally) to the VM and get >95% of native performance. There's lots of videos of folks doing this.
Hi. Do you mind linking one? Thanks. :)
Sure. Here's a guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-hOr44oBAI
Here's the famous Linus Tech Tips 7-in-1 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXOaCkbt4lI
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#60I don't get it. What's the use case for a few core utilities running natively?