On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 02:19:51AM +0000, 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 > disk. It will be sort of like running VirtualBox, but outside the Box. > > Right now there is a layer that translates kernel calls into Windows calls. > It works surprisingly well.
Right, I forgot about the terrible filesystem performance in WsL1 that WsL2 is supposed to fix. > I have been running Debian-on-Windows (Win10 Pro) for a few months now. It > doesn't run X11. There are complicated workarounds for this, but since I > do most of my work at the console, it doesn't bother me. YMMV. Otherwise > apt-get works as you'd expect, and so far everything runs very smoothly; > WSL 1 uses an older, conservative version of Debian stable, and I haven't > been tempted to run testing. (Well, okay, I've been tempted, but so far > I haven't given in.) Have WSL take over the whole screen and it's very > much like running Debian from the console normally. I have X410 app for windows 10, so it does run X apps. > It's pretty easy to share files between WSL and Windows: the normal windows > drive is automagically mounted at /mnt/c/. Then you just read/write to it. > > On the whole the integration is rather good. I haven't tried pushing the > limits, mostly because I haven't needed to. Windows 10 Pro seems to be one > of the occasional "solid" releases of Windows -- I haven't had it crash on > me yet, or even misbehave, and things work more or less as you'd expect. > However, I don't really know anything about Windows; this is the first time > I've even tried it since Win 3.1, so I'm no expert. > > WSL 1 runs fine (in terminal/console mode) on a second monitor. It's easy > and seamless to go from the Linux environment to Windows, and vice-versa. It certainly does work surprisingly well. Early on in the betas it was glitchy, but they fixed it up rather quickly. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
