On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 02:08:37PM -0500, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
> There's also a free X server for Windows 10. It's not accelerated, but will
> do in a pinch.
It also doesn't integrate with windows nearly as well as far as I
could tell.
X410 seemed worth the about $10 I paid for it.
>
On Wed., Jan. 15, 2020, 10:15 Lennart Sorensen via talk,
wrote::
>
> I have X410 app for windows 10, so it does run X apps.
>
There's also a free X server for Windows 10. It's not accelerated, but will
do in a pinch.
The WSL1 terminal is awful compared to what most distros provide. Copy and
pas
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 02:19:51AM +, Peter King via talk wrote:
> The real payoff is supposed to come Real Soon Now -- probably April:in WSL
> 2, the Linux kernel itself will receive system calls, running on a trimmed
> down version of the Hyper-V hypervisor, hosting files on a virtual ext4
>
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 09:19:47PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 2020-01-14 07:53 PM, Paul King via talk wrote:
> > It begs the question also as to how different are these distros from
> > Cygwin? Sounds like these are just different attempts to duplicate what
> > Cygwin is doing. BTW,
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 07:53:31PM -0500, Paul King via talk wrote:
> I have been running dual boot into Windows and Linus for decades, but had a
> major problem with the latest Windows 10 in dual booting with Ubuntu.
> Apparently, I have heard (can't locate the source) booting into Linux can no
Here are different ways (chronologically encounted) to get "Linux"
environment in Windows:
1. Busybox for Windows
- it's single binary, available in x32 and x64 version.
- has "ncat", but no "ssh".
2. Cygwin
- full Linux utilities (like sed, awk, bash, etc) compiled on
Windows.
On 2020-01-14 07:53 PM, Paul King via talk wrote:
It begs the question also as to how different are these distros from Cygwin?
Sounds like these are just different attempts to duplicate what Cygwin is
doing. BTW, Cygwin itself is not offered at the Microsoft store.
I believe the current versi
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 07:53:31PM -0500, Paul King via talk wrote:
> Anyone have experiences with these weird versions of Linux running on
> Windows? I would like to hear about it. Any experience with how it would
> look with a dual monitor?
The real payoff is supposed to come Real Soon Now --
On 2020-01-14 07:53 PM, Paul King via talk wrote:
Hi
I have been running dual boot into Windows and Linus for decades, but had a
major problem with the latest Windows 10 in dual booting with Ubuntu.
Apparently, I have heard (can't locate the source) booting into Linux can no
longer be done o
