On 30 March 2016 at 14:52, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> 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 it. (There's also the Apt developer's mailing list at the > > harder-to-discover de...@lists.debian.org who I have not copied in, as > they are > > likely all on -devel anyway) > > > > Personally (although I am not an Apt developer) I think it sounds like an > > interesting idea, and there is some precedent as APT was the basis of the > > "Fink" package management system for Apple Mac OS X. Not re-inventing > the > > wheel is a very good idea, lots of package management problems have been > > discovered and solved with APT already (and it's sad to see things like > Ruby > > gems, Go packages etc. re-discover the very same problems over and over > again) > > Looks like Microsoft went with a Linux syscall emulation layer for the > Windows kernel: > > http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > Something like this:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-canonical-partner-to-bring-ubuntu-to-windows-10/ Sounds super cool! Finally the "year of Linux on Desktop"! lol I would like to play with this, for sure... :-D
