[Wolves] ubuntu on windows

[Suntish T. Narain]

Is that the longest thread we ever had, all for April's fool?

Big up WLUG, variety adds spice to life ;-)

On Friday, 1 April 2016, Chris Ellis <chris at intrbiz.com> wrote:

> Hi
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Claire Robinson <lug at sitesearcher.co.uk
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > On 01/04/16 14:51, Alan Pope wrote:
> >
> >> I've had people "speak up" to me privately about this thread Pete. I
> >> would imagine they didn't do so publicly, for fear of being on the
> >> receiving end of more of your bile. Just a guess.
> >>
> >> Love,
> >> Al.
> >
> > I don't like to see this kind of ad'hominem attack, whatever the
> > reasoning behind it. This reflects badly on the group. If there is any
> > view which should be expressed in private, it is this.
> >
> > It is always good to question things and not just blindly accept them,
> > especially when they are things being churned out by corporate
> > interests. It is always good to have different opinions and to see them
> > freely expressed. It should be encouraged, not suppressed.
> >
> > This is not the Wolves Ubuntu User Group, is it? Or Ubuntu fan club?
> > Linux & Ubuntu are not yet interchangeable terms, at least outside the
> > buntusphere.
> >
> > Regards
> > Claire
> >
>
> I entirely agree with Claire on this.
>
> Pete has a somewhat direct style, this is life.  Everyone has differing
> opinions, and we should be free to express them and to refute them.
>
> TBH, I'm far more interested in the tech.  Alan, I'd love to know how
> deep this goes.  Have MS just implemented the minimal syscalls
> needed to make simple Posix apps work.  Or have they implemented
> the entire Linux ABI.
>
> Also what was Canonical's involvement.  Did you merely provide a bunch
> of binaries?  Or how far where you involved in the translation layer?
>
> Additionally, does this exist at the NT Kernel layer? NT was designed
> to support multiple syscall interfaces as I understand it.  Or does it do
> some translation at the userland layer?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
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