#366394 - 30/03/2016 17:26
Linux binaries on Windows
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/06/1999
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Microsoft's developer conference is currently running, and the keynote had this massive announcement... http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.htmlHere's let's break it down slowly...
Windows 10 users
Can open the Windows Start menu
And type "bash" [enter]
Which opens a cmd.exe console
Running Ubuntu's /bin/bash
With full access to all of Ubuntu user space
Yes, that means apt, ssh, rsync, find, grep, awk, sed, sort, xargs, md5sum, gpg, curl, wget, apache, mysql, python, perl, ruby, php, gcc, tar, vim, emacs, diff, patch...
And most of the tens of thousands binary packages available in the Ubuntu archives!
All via a new subsystem called "Windows Subsystem for Linux".
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#366396 - 30/03/2016 17:45
Re: Linux binaries on Windows
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Wh...
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OH!!!! it's April first coming up, right? Man, I gotta watch out for the early birds.
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#366398 - 30/03/2016 21:35
Re: Linux binaries on Windows
[Re: drakino]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 18/06/2001
Posts: 2504
Loc: Roma, Italy
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That is huge, but perfectly in line with the new Microsoft by Satya Nadella, I think. It is an interesting and promising new Microsoft, if you ask me.
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#366402 - 31/03/2016 12:42
Re: Linux binaries on Windows
[Re: Taym]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 02/06/2000
Posts: 1996
Loc: Gothenburg, Sweden
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A rather skeptical friend muttered something about "embrace, extend..."
Will be interesting to see what happens, either way...
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#366405 - 31/03/2016 14:34
Re: Linux binaries on Windows
[Re: Taym]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
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That is huge, but perfectly in line with the new Microsoft by Satya Nadella, I think. It is an interesting and promising new Microsoft, if you ask me. Agreed very much, and it's exciting to see. The overall corporate restructures seem to be doing wonders for getting research projects out of their labs and are resulting in some great tools. This developer environment would have been very useful for some of the past game projects I was part of. Microsoft blog post with more details and a video of it in action is here: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2...GaUGfu0.twitter
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#366410 - 01/04/2016 02:26
Re: Linux binaries on Windows
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
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Does today count as April -1 2016? Edit: Anti-Fools Day? Wh...
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OH!!!! it's April first coming up, right? Man, I gotta watch out for the early birds.
Edited by gbeer (01/04/2016 13:43)
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#366413 - 02/04/2016 08:20
Re: Linux binaries on Windows
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 18/06/2001
Posts: 2504
Loc: Roma, Italy
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The overall corporate restructures seem to be doing wonders for getting research projects out of their labs and are resulting in some great tools. So true. I've been using MS beta OSs forever. Since Windows 8 on, running a beta Windows OS has been a lot of fun precisely because of that, and it's getting better every time.
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