anybody tried this? http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html?m=1 > Wednesday, March 30, 2016 > [by Dustin Kirkland, Canonical Ubuntu Product and Strategy] > Ubuntu on Windows -- The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers
... > as unveiled today in a demo during Kevin Gallo's opening keynote of the Build > conference.... An Ubuntu user space and bash shell, running natively in a > Windows 10 cmd.exe console! ... > let's break it down slowly... > 1. Windows 10 users > 2. Can open the Windows Start menu > 3. And type "bash" [enter] > 4. Which opens a cmd.exe console > 5. Running Ubuntu's /bin/bash > 6. With full access to all of Ubuntu user space > 7. 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... > 8. And most of the tens of thousands binary packages available in the Ubuntu > archives! > "Right, so just Ubuntu running in a virtual machine?" Nope! This isn't a > virtual machine at all. There's no Linux kernel booting in a VM under a > hypervisor. It's just the Ubuntu user space. > "Ah, okay, so this is Ubuntu in a container then?" Nope! This isn't a > container either. It's native Ubuntu binaries running directly in Windows. > "Hum, well it's like cygwin perhaps?" Nope! Cygwin includes open source > utilities are recompiled from source to run natively in Windows. Here, we're > talking about bit-for-bit, checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries running > directly in Windows. > [long pause] > "So maybe something like a Linux emulator?" Now you're getting warmer! A > team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some > Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of > Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls. Linux geeks can think of it sort of > the inverse of "wine" -- Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows. > Microsoft calls it their "Windows Subsystem for Linux". (No, it's not open > source at this time.) > Oh, and it's totally shit hot! The sysbench utility is showing nearly > equivalent cpu, memory, and [I/O] performance. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
