On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> I seem to remember some more tech info is in the HN thread:
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11390545
Actually it was this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388418
Re fork, they implemented that in the Windows kernel and
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> As I commented on Dustin's blog, I'm also interested in more technical
> details:
I seem to remember some more tech info is in the HN thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11390545
> Some Linux programs will be easy to support,
>
> Linux/Unix is more than just the syscalls, there's quite a few places
> where the Windows model just doesn't match up with the Unix model:
> processes, threads, filesystem/VFS semantics, ...
>
> How does fork() work? How does file locking work with things like
> shared libraries in this
z...@debian.org wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 03:03:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>> Quite ingenious really.
>
>I'm curious about the set of syscalls they've implemented, and in
>particular about which non-POSIX (but Linux) syscalls are in that set.
>Has anyone seen that list yet?
As I commented
On Mar 31, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I think we should. It will help Windows users use less proprietary
> software in their daily lives, and my very well work as a "gateway drug"
> to 100% Free Software in the long run.
Agreed.
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Marco
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 03:03:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Quite ingenious really.
I'm curious about the set of syscalls they've implemented, and in
particular about which non-POSIX (but Linux) syscalls are in that set.
Has anyone seen that list yet?
> I wonder if we should start offering
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> This solution does not need to reimplement any library functions, as they can
> take everything from the unpacked Ubuntu rootfs and then "just" need to handle
> the Linux systemcalls correctly.
Quite ingenious really. I wonder if we
Quoting Paul Wise (2016-03-31 08:42:58)
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> > It looks mightily impressive! When I read about this originally I didn't
> > find a link with so many details and even screenshots - thanks for that! It
> > seems they can even run apt (and thus
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> It looks mightily impressive! When I read about this originally I didn't find
> a
> link with so many details and even screenshots - thanks for that! It seems
> they
> can even run apt (and thus dpkg) with this "reversed wine" :D
Seems
Quoting Paul Wise (2016-03-30 19:52:51)
> Looks like Microsoft went with a Linux syscall emulation layer for the
> Windows kernel:
>
> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html
if I understand it correctly, then this should indeed solve Eric's original
message.
It looks
On 30 March 2016 at 14:52, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>
> > I think your message would be better addressed to the debian-devel
> mailing
> > list, who I have copied in to this reply so that more Debian Developers
> are
> > aware
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>
>> I think your message would be better addressed to the debian-devel mailing
>> list, who I have copied in to this reply so that more Debian Developers are
>> aware of
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> I think your message would be better addressed to the debian-devel mailing
> list, who I have copied in to this reply so that more Debian Developers are
> aware of it. (There's also the Apt developer's mailing list at the
>
Thanks Fabian, that make sense, we also having a look at this
eric
-Original Message-
From: Fabian Greffrath [mailto:fab...@debian.org]
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 8:46 AM
To: Eric Mittelette <ericm...@microsoft.com>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: RE: Debian p
Hi there,
for my occasional development on Windows I use Msys2 which have Arch's
pacman package management system ported to Windows and even provide a
huge repository of pre-compiled package. It's not APT, but at least a
reasonable packaging system and a bash shell on Windows to begin with.
;)
> I could be useful to create a Debian GNU/ReactOS port to avoid the
> proprietary software dependency of a cross-compiled-only port.
Really? Wow!
--
igor
ct: RE: Debian package on Windows
IIRC, windowspackager.org created wpkg, which allows for the installation of
format 2.0 debs on Windows (Of course, they're meant to contain Win32
binaries), It didn't really catch on though due to the nature of the design of
Windows which made it a lot less fe
@lists.debian.org; Eric Mittelette <ericm...@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Debian package on Windows
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I think people in general have concluded that such a port would be
> mostly useful only to cross-build, but not to run stuff.
I cou
<ericm...@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Debian package on Windows
Hi,
Eric Mittelette wrote:
> I'm PM in the Visual C++ Team (VC Lib to be precise here at
> Microsoft), we started to think about lib acquisition (still a painful
> process for
> C++ on Windows) and we are imaging diff
Hi,
Eric Mittelette wrote:
> I'm PM in the Visual C++ Team (VC Lib to be precise here at Microsoft),
> we started to think about lib acquisition (still a painful process for
> C++ on Windows) and we are imaging different options, one is to port
> apt-get on Windows.
> Porting Apt-Get mean using
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I think people in general have concluded that such a port would be mostly
> useful only to cross-build, but not to run stuff.
I could be useful to create a Debian GNU/ReactOS port to avoid the
proprietary software dependency of a
Hi!
On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 14:05:33 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> [ for -devel: this is a reply to a post to debian-apache, please see
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2016/02/msg4.html ]
Inlining parts of that mail here:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 01:09:18 +, Eric Mittelette
rom: j...@debian.org
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> CC: ericm...@microsoft.com; debian-apa...@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian package on Windows
>
> [ for -devel: this is a reply to a post to debian-apache, please see
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2016/02
[ for -devel: this is a reply to a post to debian-apache, please see
https://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2016/02/msg4.html ]
Hi Eric,
I think your message would be better addressed to the debian-devel mailing
list, who I have copied in to this reply so that more Debian Developers are
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