On Apr 12 14:58, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 12/04/2016 14:50, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >By now I guess most of us have seen the reports of bash, and in fact a full > >Linux userland, running natively in Windows 10: > > > >http://www.osnews.com/story/29149/Microsoft_and_Canonical_partner_to_bring_Ubuntu_to_Windows_10 > >http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx > >http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html > > > >It's in beta release and doesn't seem to have been widely tested yet. > >Apparently > >Microsoft has developed an API translation layer, simliar to the Cygwin DLL, > >to > >make this work. But unlike with Cygwin, Linux apps don't have to be rebuilt > >- > >they can run natively as-is in Windows 10. So you can get, allegedly, the > >full > >Linux userland out-of-the-box. > > > >The first link cited above suggests that if this is all it claims to be, it > >would remove the need for Cygwin. I can see the point. > > > >Has anyone had a chance to try this new feature? Does it work as well as is > >claimed? > > > >I realize this may be strictly off-topic here, but it seems to me to be > >potentially so important to the future of Cygwin that it's worth discussing > >here > >insted of on cygwin-talk. > > > >Andrew > > > Before W10 became the standard it will take some time. > > Considering the previous history of Microsoft with > Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) , my feeling is > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeo_Danaos_et_dona_ferentes > > If they really would like to port Unix on MS, it will be enough to > provide Corinna with a simple way to implement fork....
Huh, right. If only... https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/afdf1b68-1f3e-47f5-94cf-51e397afe073/ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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