Greetings, Evgeny Grin! > 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. I was specifically referring to unexpected conversion, if you didn't notice. >>> 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. As long as you're only user, you won't see it, but try to use it in a multiuser environment. Previously, it was not possible. >>> 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. This is the same argument I hear over and over again. "suck it up, there's no other choice". There is other choice. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, October 28, 2016 23:14:23 Sorry for my terrible english...
