My main question is whether it would work for something like running Sendmail/Postfix/Exim, nginx and courier-imap. If not, how would that work with Cygwin?
Thanks On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 4:20 PM Lonnie Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Dan Egli <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Has anyone had any experience with the Windows Services for Linux? How > does > > it compare to a full fledged distro? I'm really curious, but not in a > > position (yet) to experiment for myself. > > > > I've used it a bit. It is still quite Beta at the moment. > > It is a full fledged distribution (minus the kernel). You can generally > install any Linux application. (Note: install != run) > > Like the others said, it's not a virtual machine. No Linux kernel, No > "init" of any kind, so running background services is difficult. > Also there are several features it doesn't yet support so many programs > will fail with strange errors, like unix sockets or other lower level > network stuff. Things like X11, nmap and tcpdump will not work. > Though, Microsoft is making lots of progress with each update. > > All that said, you can still get a lot done with it. > * A real openssh client > * access to Windows file systems > * bash, coreutils, curl, python, perl, ruby, etc. > > So far, not enough to swap from a Linux VM to WSL completely. However, > some good progress. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
