Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

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Post by wisebit » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 11:25 PM UTC

Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta
blogs.msdn.microsoft.com

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

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Post by tyrw » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 11:45 PM UTC

In my experience, emulators are never quite the same as the real deal. Has anyone used this, and if so how was it?

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

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Post by blibble » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 11:46 PM UTC

finally I can remove the win32 specific code from all the open source software I maintain

not sure that was what Microsoft was going for though...

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

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Post by frozenport » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 11:47 PM UTC

Does anybody use this?

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

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Post by SPACE_LAWYER » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 11:47 PM UTC

tyrw wrote: post #2

In my experience, emulators are never quite the same as the real deal. Has anyone used this, and if so how was it?

It's not an emulator

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

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Post by therein » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 11:47 PM UTC

tyrw wrote: post #2

In my experience, emulators are never quite the same as the real deal. Has anyone used this, and if so how was it?

It is not an emulator and the experience is pretty great for anything involving Linux as a workstation.

Even though they say "NO current plans to support X/GUI apps, desktops, servers, etc. at this time", this is achievable by installing VcXsrv.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 11:47 PM UTC

tyrw wrote: post #2

In my experience, emulators are never quite the same as the real deal. Has anyone used this, and if so how was it?

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Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

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Post by geofft » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 11:50 PM UTC

blibble wrote: post #3

finally I can remove the win32 specific code from all the open source software I maintain not sure that was what Microsoft was going for though...

Depends on your software - it doesn't get you integration with other Win32 apps or features, notably the GUI, since it's a separate subsystem. If your app is a database server, probably yes. If your app is a monitoring agent, definitely no.

(I'm curious if you've used it or you're just commenting based on the headline?)

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

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Post by tyrw » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 11:50 PM UTC

therein wrote: post #6

tyrw wrote: post #2

In my experience, emulators are never quite the same as the real deal. Has anyone used this, and if so how was it?

It is not an emulator and the experience is pretty great for anything involving Linux as a workstation. Even though they say "NO current plans to support X/GUI apps, desktops, servers, etc. at this time", this is achievable by installing VcXsrv.

Perhaps emulator was a poor descriptor in this case -- I haven't used it. But it is running a subset of functionality non-natively, correct?

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

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Post by freehunter » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 11:50 PM UTC

tyrw wrote: post #2

In my experience, emulators are never quite the same as the real deal. Has anyone used this, and if so how was it?

It's not really an emulator. It's more like a virtual machine that runs Linux in the background and lets you use the commands. You can install Ubuntu with it and it's officially supported. If it didn't work, I'm sure Ubuntu wouldn't run.