[Wolves] ubuntu on windows

[Stephen Parkes]

On 31 March 2016 at 13:35, Peter Cannon <dick_turpin at archlinux.us> wrote:

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> Nothing, Bash is free.
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> Yet again it's another misleading Ubuntu related story. If you read it you
> will see that in fact it's CLI tools, it's a syscall translation layer that
> means you can run compiled Linux binaries atop a running Windows instance
> with little performance penalty. The keyword there by the way is Linux.
> *EVERY* Linux distro has these CLI tools.
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> Yet again we're seeing another instance of Ubuntu-nee-Canonical claiming
> ownership of something that actually isn't theirs.
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You can't miss an opportunity to knock Canonical can you Pete :)

It's not any distro, it's Ubuntu as they are the ones who have worked with
MS to make this happen so they deserve their share of the credit.  Notice
it's Ubuntu developers up there not GNU or Linux dev's or people working on
other distros.  They helped MS with the user side of the setup to get this
out.

As somebody who has to use Windows for development I welcome this.  I use
git everyday from a bash shell in windows, sometimes I need to cross
compile things and sometimes that means Cygwin and sometime Ming32 some of
my windows machines have three different bash terminals with different
access levels to the underlying OS.  That's bollocks and if this means I
can use Linux tools on top of a windows machine and some of the hassle will
go away as various tool chain vendors move to this system then I love it :)

sparkes