BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
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BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
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Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#2Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#3Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
You really wouldn't. I developed code for Coherent, if anyone remembers that UNIX clone. I honestly never want that to come back.
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#4Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
Doesn’t this sort of exist today with Cygwin/MSYS2/Git Bash/etc?
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#5Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
This is where we should be, native support of Linux on Windows and native support of Windows on Linux. Executables should be cross-compatible, we somehow ended up in a reality of monopolistic -- 1v1. I would enjoy it to break free at some point but I doubt it.
Just about everything now is it's own garden with a tiny API gate to allow you access to the minor features of the whole collection.
I am aware of WSL and the likes but, it's taken many years to get that far.
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#6Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
You really wouldn't. I developed code for Coherent, if anyone remembers that UNIX clone. I honestly never want that to come back.
You should chime in on this Coherent (nascent) thread.
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#7Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
This is where we should be, native support of Linux on Windows and native support of Windows on Linux. Executables should be cross-compatible, we somehow ended up in a reality of monopolistic -- 1v1. I would enjoy it to break free at some point but I doubt it. Just about everything now is it's own garden with a tiny API gate to allow you access to the minor features of the whole collection. I am aware of WSL and the…
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Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#8Another interesting thing to explore would be colinux which was a bit similar to WSL but third party.
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#9Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
This is where we should be, native support of Linux on Windows and native support of Windows on Linux. Executables should be cross-compatible, we somehow ended up in a reality of monopolistic -- 1v1. I would enjoy it to break free at some point but I doubt it. Just about everything now is it's own garden with a tiny API gate to allow you access to the minor features of the whole collection. I am aware of WSL and the…
> Executables should be cross-compatible
So cosmopolitan? https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
Re: BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
#10Talk about things I’d want to bring back if I were suddenly a mega millionaire or billionaire.
Totally.
I don't want to derail the conversation too much but when I look at what Notch has become since he became a billionaire it's frankly pathetic.
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