It's been in the Insider Preview builds for a while. Now the general public is getting a crack at it.
I doubt it will make much of an impression on most Windows users. It doesn't run GUI apps, and the majority of Windows people rarely touch the command line or non-GUI applications. I can see it becoming a big hit with system administrators. Not just to run Linux applications, but also to use bash as a shell rather than PowerShell. Admins who work with both Windows and Linux will appreciate being able to work on both platforms with a single shell. On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of the new features in Windows 10 1607 (aka Anniversary Update) is > the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It lets you run Linux binaries on Windows. > > No, it's not a virtual machine. > > No, it's not a container. > > No, it's not a Linux kernel compiled as an executable (coLinux). > > No, it's not an environment for compiling and running POSIX code on > Windows (Cygwin). > > No, it's not an emulator. > > It is similar to WINE. It's a set of libraries/tools/etc that translate > Linux system calls into Windows system calls on the fly. It runs real > 64-bit Linux ELF (specifically Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS as of this writing) > binaries pulled directly from Canonical's distribution mirrors: > > ratinox@SKULD:~$ file /bin/bash > /bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), > dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, > BuildID[sha1]=54967822da027467f21e65a1eac7576dec7dd821, stripped > ratinox@SKULD:~$ sha256sum /bin/bash > 8c4d49445d0050884e0703571f187338b10c7836b08ed822cc5fc6cf15ac76b0 /bin/bash > > I wonder if RMS is going to try to get the world to call it > "GNU/Windows". :) > > -- > Rich P. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss