On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:19 AM, VulK <etn45...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > Some time ago I briefly played with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows with some > limited success. The situation dramatically improved recently. I would risk > saying that our nightmares to support windows are nearly over. > > > Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393] > (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. > > C:\Users\VulK>bash > root@DESKTOP-U13FH0M:/mnt/c/Users/VulK# uname -a > Linux DESKTOP-U13FH0M 3.4.0+ #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 1 17:06:05 CST 2013 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > root@DESKTOP-U13FH0M:~# apt-add-repository -y ppa:aims/sagemath > root@DESKTOP-U13FH0M:~# apt-get update > ... > root@DESKTOP-U13FH0M:~# apt-get install sagemath-upstream-binary > ... > root@DESKTOP-U13FH0M:/mnt/c/Users/VulK# sage > > SageMath version 7.2, Release Date: 2016-05-15 > Type "notebook()" for the browser-based notebook interface. > Type "help()" for help. > > sage: 2+2 > 4 > sage: > > > even the notebook seems to work just fine. I did not play with x11 yet. > > If I am not mistaken Bash should be available to everyone with the upcoming > windows update without the need to install a developer preview. > Best > S. > > > TLDR: there is no need to support windows directly any more: it can now run > executables compiled for Ubuntu
I disagree for a few reasons: 1) This is not available to all Windows users. 2) Currently this feature is intended as a developer tool only; Microsoft has stated explicitly that it is not intended for end-user application distribution on Windows. That said, I see no reason it couldn't be used that way, but there are limitations to its use for that purpose. For example, it is a walled garden--it is not possible, for example, to run native applications within the "bash" environment 3) It's unclear what performance impact this has over a native application. Less, certainly, than using Cygwin. Probably others as well. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
