And a command line is not a windows environment. So unless they put hooks into the DirectX directly (ugh), then there is still the need to have X11 hanging around there somewhere. But maybe then again apt-get install X11*
-mjl ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Laufersweiler [email protected] Bad weather looks best through an open window. > On Mar 30, at 1:44 PM, W. Trevor King <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- > This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). > For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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