On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 7:12:59 AM UTC+1, Rob Beezer wrote: >> >> Dear Brian, >> >> Appears it is some flavor of Ubuntu Linux running within Windows? >> >> >> https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/ >> > right. > https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows > > I tried to build Sage on such a thing, but patch(1) is broken there. > https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/90 > > it's all clearly a bit rough at the moment...
My understanding is that this is currently being positioned *solely* as a tool for developers (and in particular it seems web developers have driven a lot of this work initially, though I'm sure once it's in the wild its use cases will broaden). This article in Ars Technica gives some more of the historical background to this, and why it's being considered a development tool *only* right now: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/04/why-microsoft-needed-to-make-windows-run-linux-software/ My point is that it is not being supported, at least initially, for deployment either in servers or for end users. Which is not to say it *couldn't* be used in that way. I haven't tried it yet myself and don't know what the limitations are, but I don't see what would stop someone from distributing software that requires the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux, as they're calling it) to run. But it's not officially supported to do that either. It's also not clear to me whether this will be available on all Windows 10 systems (with the appropriate update) or if it will be an optional add-on users would have to install. Still, this is definitely a Big Deal and worth keeping an eye on. Erik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
