<<< "So maybe something like a Linux emulator?" Now you're getting warmer! A team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls. Linux geeks can think of it sort of the inverse of "wine" -- Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows. Microsoft calls it their "Windows Subsystem for Linux". (No, it's not open source at this time.) >>>
NOTE THE ABOVE SAYS: "(No, it's not open source at this time.)"!!!! I'm not touching this UNOPEN Microsoft Ubuntu until they do the right thing and open-source it. I prefer MSYS anyways after all I prefer pacman/arch these days anyways. On 03/30/2016 03:10 PM, Teemu Nätkinniemi wrote: > Looks like Microsoft is adding the userspace from Ubuntu to Windows > 10. The most relevant quote ""Ah, okay, so this is Ubuntu in a > container then?" Nope! This isn't a container either. It's native > Ubuntu binaries running directly in Windows." > > http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Transform Data into Opportunity. > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with > Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. > Click to learn more. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Msys2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
