On 31/03/2016 18:57, Ted Roche wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote:
That means bash etc
I'm *quite* sure this isn't an April Fool ...
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the-ubuntu-userspace-for-windows-developers/?utm_source=ubunteu&utm_medium=url_shortner&utm_term=RBOWP7&utm_campaign=shortner
Anybody have some good insight as to why MS probably paid Canonical a
bunch of money to port all the console tools to Windows? Was the
PowerShell/DotNetCLI not up to the task?
Will we have to start calling in GNU/Windows?
My cynical side thinks that far too many people saw the change to Win10
as a leap too far, and if they had to handle that much change they might
as well go for Ubuntu/ Mint, this would allow these people to put a foot
into that camp while remaining firmly tied to ms' apron strings.
My whimsical side remembers a PC User Group meeting in London around
1985: a senior honcho from ms UK said that the next version of msDos
would be binary compatible with Unix..... at a meeting a couple of
months later this was completely pooh-poohed. They handed out free
copies of Windows 1.0 - on a good commercial PC the windows part was so
slow as to be unusable (the underlying was still Dos).
My realistic side sees this as a possible alternative to my Win10/Mint
dual booter.
(The tricky bit may be threads/ processes).
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