On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 08:07:54PM +0200, Lukas Weber wrote:
> FYI, apparently Microsoft is adding Bash to Windows 10 in the next
> big update mid-year:
> http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash

It's not April 1st yet is it?  Because this [1] makes it look like
Windows will also support apt-get (after you turn all this on via a
developer setting).  Which would be pretty awesome, and mean we could
replace all our Windows-installation hoop jumping with “enable this
setting and apt-get install these packages…”.

I'm not sure how that would happen though.  Have Canonical/Microsoft
ported all of those applications to also run on a Windows kernel?  Are
they using something like Cygwin's shim layer to put a POSIX interface
on top of Window's kernel?

Cheers,
Trevor

[1]: 
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx

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