This is neat.
Many moons ago, I remember using Interix and SFU on Windows XP (also tried coLinux and of course Cygwin and mingw as they became available).
What I did notice with SFU/Interix is that they were extremely sluggish, when compared to an actual POSIX system. It will be interesting to see the performance of this on Windows 10.
Ubuntu on Windows
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Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#522I have been on Unix(Mac/Linux) atleast for 8 years. A lot of developers are buying mac books these days. At this point, even non-technical people are buying "expensive" mac books. This directly affects microsoft bottomline. Obviously, microsoft cannot port mac utilities into windows to reduce the exodus of developers from windows. The stop-gap solution would be to run all "gnu core-utils" in windows natively, the mos…
developers != mainstream App-stores require critical mass of mainstream users which Windows still has more of beyond anyone else. Developers follow the masses, not the other way around.
You say that, but we're the same a--holes who say to our family: "we'll only provide tech support for Apple devices"...
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#523So how do we get it? I have a laptop set to get "Insider" updates but I don't see the feature anywhere obvious.
According to Mike Harsh, a beta version is coming in an insider release "after the Build conference." [1] During an interview Q&A, Kevin Gallo says that it might show up in a week or two. [2]
[1] https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-o...
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#524Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windows runs great on Macs!
I wish. On newer models there's a kernel issue that prevents proper suspend and shutdown, which is a dealbreaker for a laptop. I have yet to find a workaround. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101681 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103211
What, what? Aren't those Linux kernel bugs? I'm confused what they have to do with running Windows on Mac hardware, though perhaps I'm missing something
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#525Hopefully this will fail and they will switch to GNU Linux and ditch Windows... that would be a long time dream come true.
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#526Surprised I don't see anyone else mentioning this. This looks to me like typical Microsoft strategy that they utilized a lot 25 years ago. 1. when not leader in given market, make your product fully compatible with competitor 2. start gaining momentum (e.g. why should I use Linux, when on Windows I can run both Linux and Windows applications) 3. once becoming leader break up compatibility 4. rinse and repeat Happened…
Yes, I am so surprised to see the wave of folks here on HN jumping in joy about Windows 10 becoming more awesome for them. Oh, so all that time you guys did not care about running on a proprietary platform, even though most folks here actually like and promote Open Source? And that's not just that, it's basically strengthening the bully which uses aggressive patents against other Linux-based businesses, still to this day.
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#527Surprised I don't see anyone else mentioning this. This looks to me like typical Microsoft strategy that they utilized a lot 25 years ago. 1. when not leader in given market, make your product fully compatible with competitor 2. start gaining momentum (e.g. why should I use Linux, when on Windows I can run both Linux and Windows applications) 3. once becoming leader break up compatibility 4. rinse and repeat Happened…
Could you name a single company that doesn't follow where the market is and try to monopolises it later? Plus, Windows is still the leader in the desktop and laptop market until today. They are facing some tough competition but "not leader in given market" is not true.
Uh, any company that sells niche or upmarket offerings of commodity products, for one. I.e. Apple, Tesla, a bunch of watch manufacturers.
> Plus, Windows is still the leader in the desktop and laptop market until today. They are facing some tough competition but "not leader in given market" is not true.
Their position in the server world is not nearly so secure, which is quite possibly what this move is meant to address.
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#528Microsoft is embracing Ubuntu. That's the first step.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
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#529Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Yea, I think they are going after developers who use OS X because it is UNIXy It's a bit more than UNIXy, (the proper term is Unix-like), it literally is UNIX. It meets the UNIX 03 specifications . Also, the motivations for these move predate the rise in popularity of Apple. For years, one of the biggest complaints about Windows was the lack of a good command line interface. There was the legacy CMD.EXE, which provi…
"the reality is these tools work just fine. There's never been a reason to evolve them." On the contrary; there have been many valid reasons to evolve them, but backward compatibility was deemed more important. Example #1: it is possible to write a sh/csh/bash/?sh script that handles file names with spaces, slashes, quotes, question marks, etc, but one would hope that would be made a bit easier, almost half a century…
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2) Now paralell is better
3) Never. You should be able to check the man pages even if you can't access the binaries.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#530How does it differ from CoLinux from 2004? http://www.colinux.org
its NiH, no GPL baby!11