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Re: Ubuntu on Windows

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Post by krylon » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 3:55 AM UTC

SSLy wrote: post #220

krylon wrote: post #195

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> It's like everyone forgot there was such a thing as SFU/SUA Well, it's not like Microsoft made much of an effort to remind people. It was discontinued as a separate project after about Windows XP. It continued to be part of Windows Server[1], but AFAIK, it was no longer present in the client versions. [1] at least until 2008 or 2008 R2, I didn't check later versions.

last it was avaiable in windows 8 enterprise

I stand corrected.

Thanks for the info!

Re: Ubuntu on Windows

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Post by deckar01 » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 3:56 AM UTC

tostitos1979 wrote: post #142

simonlc wrote: post #90

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I completely agree. I only really switched to OSX because getting node tools to work on windows and cygwin is a pita.

I've been "stuck" with a 2010 Macbook since Apple isn't refreshing it's laptop hardware soon enough. Plus I'm sick of soldered in RAM and other BS. For devs that do heavy Linux work (but have stuck with a Mac OS for GUI/app reasons), is it time to move (back) to Windows? If so, what would be a good laptop to get at the moment?

Go to a brick and mortar electronics store, pick out a laptop that meets your desired specs, and do something realistic with it for a while. There are lots of little things I took for granted about Apple MacBooks that no Windows laptops could match. Touch pad, high dpi display, and cooling were never quite done right, but they are crucial for every day operations.

Re: Ubuntu on Windows

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Post by joeyaiello » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 4:01 AM UTC

hackguru wrote: post #497

What does this mean for PowerShell?

See my reply on the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11392734

Re: Ubuntu on Windows

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 4:03 AM UTC

revelation wrote: post #189

tdicola wrote: post #127

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I'm with you. Interesting novelty, but I would absolutely not bank on doing anything missions critical with this. Wait 5 years for the excitement to die down and lets see if the team stuck maintaining this is even going to be around anymore. Are they committing to keeping the syscall translation layer up to date with changes in later kernels, etc? Or is this going to turn into another 'You can run Android apps on Win…

... what changes in later kernels? Remember the holy edict of Linux kernel development: you don't break userspace .

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Re: Ubuntu on Windows

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Post by frozenport » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 4:05 AM UTC

typon wrote: post #68

frozenport wrote: post #60

I don't get it. What's the use case for a few core utilities running natively?

It's not a 'few' core utilities. It's any packages available on Ubuntu.

All the CLI packages I want that are on Ubuntu are also on Windows. I don't see Windows users dying for lack of applications...

Re: Ubuntu on Windows

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Post by joeyaiello » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 4:06 AM UTC

kodablah wrote: post #191

ilmiont wrote: post #140

I wonder what implications this has for SSH for PowerShell... Microsoft were originally planning to release native SSH in PowerShell this summer. But now it seems redundant when you could just use Bash anyway...

I don't think it's redundant. Many people want to remote into Windows' native shell without having bash present.

It's not redundant, and that's why our work is continuing to go forward. We're definitely not cancelling our plans[1] to deliver native Win32 OpenSSH any time soon.

[1] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/Win32-OpenS...

Re: Ubuntu on Windows

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Post by holografix » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 4:07 AM UTC

talawahdotnet wrote: post #242

crudbug wrote: post #234

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I think M$ is targeting more developers with *NIX background on the desktop side rather than Linux apps on server. So a bash support with uniform CLI is the end-game.

Yea, I think they are going after developers who use OS X because it is UNIXy. Smart move given how en vogue Apple laptops have become for developers these days.

Completely agree. Gotta say Satya is doing some serious SunTzu'ing on Microsoft's approach with other technologies. Applauds

Re: Ubuntu on Windows

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Post by madmax96 » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 4:17 AM UTC

As a FreeBSD user, this does nothing to attract me. I dislike GNU+Linux because it feels like a hacked together mess; now they're going to add that poorly designed system to an even worse system? Count me out.

Re: Ubuntu on Windows

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Post by giis » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 4:22 AM UTC

Does it comes with patented 'sudo' command? http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Microsoft-Patents-...

Re: Ubuntu on Windows

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Post by Pwngea » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 4:25 AM UTC

llomlup wrote: post #412

riotdash wrote: post #321

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Let's be honest here. Does this change make some developers actually even consider to change their OS X/Linux Desktops to Windows? Yeah it is really cool thing that we can finally use windows cmd like the terminal on unix systems however: - What about lack of all the Linux/OS X GUI software? - What about lack of all the UNIX OS features? - What about all those billions and billions of Windows malware, viruses, adware…

Although I've been a primarily C# dev for years, I gradually moved to Ubuntu, and then to OSX, all because of the better terminal/s. I like Macs, but OSX, its window management system, finder, is really bad. Having bash environment available on Windows is an incredible feat and a reason alone to reconsider Windows again. Hopefully, it won't be limited to W10.

What do you dislike about Finder? Just curious.