If I was issued a Windows laptop at this point, instead of the Mac that I have now, I'd be able to install bash/etc and have Sublime write files into my Linux filesystem where I can use git and chefdk (I'm guessing, haven't actually tried that yet, though it's on the list when I have spare time), instead of needing to work with cygwin/windows apps or a Linux VM.
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:01 AM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2016, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > > On 2016-05-12 17:08, Morgan Blackthorne wrote: >> >>> Maybe. Right now bash under Windows can only do stuff inside Linux >>> (outside of >>> the filesystems which are mounted). You still can't launch Windows >>> commands/applications from bash, which is pretty limiting. Most anything >>> folks >>> do currently in PowerShell wouldn't be achievable in bash until that >>> barrier >>> is crossed. >>> >> >> So is there any advantage to this over Cygwin/X ? >> > > I haven't used it yet, but my understanding is that right now it's fairly > limited (like the early wine, they haven't implemented that many system > calls yet), but the advantage is that it isn't a separate environment and > lets you run unmodified Linux programs. > > David Lang > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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