Linux binaries on Windows

Posted by: drakino

Linux binaries on Windows - 30/03/2016 17:26

Microsoft's developer conference is currently running, and the keynote had this massive announcement...

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html
Quote:
Here's let's break it down slowly...
Windows 10 users
Can open the Windows Start menu
And type "bash" [enter]
Which opens a cmd.exe console
Running Ubuntu's /bin/bash
With full access to all of Ubuntu user space
Yes, that means apt, ssh, rsync, find, grep, awk, sed, sort, xargs, md5sum, gpg, curl, wget, apache, mysql, python, perl, ruby, php, gcc, tar, vim, emacs, diff, patch...
And most of the tens of thousands binary packages available in the Ubuntu archives!


All via a new subsystem called "Windows Subsystem for Linux".
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Linux binaries on Windows - 30/03/2016 17:45

Wh...

Snu...

blerk....

OH!!!! it's April first coming up, right? Man, I gotta watch out for the early birds.
Posted by: Taym

Re: Linux binaries on Windows - 30/03/2016 21:35

That is huge, but perfectly in line with the new Microsoft by Satya Nadella, I think. It is an interesting and promising new Microsoft, if you ask me.
Posted by: mtempsch

Re: Linux binaries on Windows - 31/03/2016 12:42

A rather skeptical friend muttered something about "embrace, extend..."

Will be interesting to see what happens, either way...
Posted by: drakino

Re: Linux binaries on Windows - 31/03/2016 14:34

Originally Posted By: Taym
That is huge, but perfectly in line with the new Microsoft by Satya Nadella, I think. It is an interesting and promising new Microsoft, if you ask me.

Agreed very much, and it's exciting to see. The overall corporate restructures seem to be doing wonders for getting research projects out of their labs and are resulting in some great tools. This developer environment would have been very useful for some of the past game projects I was part of.

Microsoft blog post with more details and a video of it in action is here:

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2...GaUGfu0.twitter
Posted by: gbeer

Re: Linux binaries on Windows - 01/04/2016 02:26

Does today count as April -1 2016?

Edit: Anti-Fools Day?

Originally Posted By: tfabris
Wh...

Snu...

blerk....

OH!!!! it's April first coming up, right? Man, I gotta watch out for the early birds.
Posted by: Taym

Re: Linux binaries on Windows - 02/04/2016 08:20

Originally Posted By: drakino
The overall corporate restructures seem to be doing wonders for getting research projects out of their labs and are resulting in some great tools.


So true. I've been using MS beta OSs forever. Since Windows 8 on, running a beta Windows OS has been a lot of fun precisely because of that, and it's getting better every time.