On 27.10.2016 16:22, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Evgeny Grin! Privet, Андрей!
>> With latest Window Insider preview it's possible to run Linux command >> from cmd, Windows commands from bash and even use input-output redirects! >> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/10/19/windows-and-ubuntu-interoperability/ >> Seems that WSL also automatically translate \r\n<->\n. > > Which will break a lot of tools not expecting this kind oh "help". A lot of? I don't know many... correction.. any GNU/Linux tools that works badly with \n newlines. >> Is Cygwin still better for something? > > Did they fixed the user mappings? I don't know as I didn't have any problem with it. >> I understand that WSL and Cygwin are completely different approaches, >> but from user perspective both are kind of sets of GNU/Linux commands >> and both are using some intermediate layer (cygwin1.dll or LXSS). > > WSL requires Windows 10. End of story. Do you mean, that Windows itself is a problem? Or version 10 of Windows is a problem? Anyway, all Windows users will use Windows 10 (or successors) sooner or later. So it's only the beginning of the story. -- Best Wishes, Evgeny -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
