On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> I seem to remember some more tech info is in the HN thread:
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11390545
Actually it was this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388418
Re fork, they implemented that in the Windows kernel and expo
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> As I commented on Dustin's blog, I'm also interested in more technical
> details:
I seem to remember some more tech info is in the HN thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11390545
> Some Linux programs will be easy to support, som
>
> Linux/Unix is more than just the syscalls, there's quite a few places
> where the Windows model just doesn't match up with the Unix model:
> processes, threads, filesystem/VFS semantics, ...
>
> How does fork() work? How does file locking work with things like
> shared libraries in this setup?
z...@debian.org wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 03:03:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>> Quite ingenious really.
>
>I'm curious about the set of syscalls they've implemented, and in
>particular about which non-POSIX (but Linux) syscalls are in that set.
>Has anyone seen that list yet?
As I commented
On Mar 31, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I think we should. It will help Windows users use less proprietary
> software in their daily lives, and my very well work as a "gateway drug"
> to 100% Free Software in the long run.
Agreed.
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 03:03:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Quite ingenious really.
I'm curious about the set of syscalls they've implemented, and in
particular about which non-POSIX (but Linux) syscalls are in that set.
Has anyone seen that list yet?
> I wonder if we should start offering Debia
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> This solution does not need to reimplement any library functions, as they can
> take everything from the unpacked Ubuntu rootfs and then "just" need to handle
> the Linux systemcalls correctly.
Quite ingenious really. I wonder if we shoul
Quoting Paul Wise (2016-03-31 08:42:58)
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> > It looks mightily impressive! When I read about this originally I didn't
> > find a link with so many details and even screenshots - thanks for that! It
> > seems they can even run apt (and thus d
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> It looks mightily impressive! When I read about this originally I didn't find
> a
> link with so many details and even screenshots - thanks for that! It seems
> they
> can even run apt (and thus dpkg) with this "reversed wine" :D
Seems
Quoting Paul Wise (2016-03-30 19:52:51)
> Looks like Microsoft went with a Linux syscall emulation layer for the
> Windows kernel:
>
> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html
if I understand it correctly, then this should indeed solve Eric's original
message.
It looks mighti
On 30 March 2016 at 14:52, Paul Wise 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 a
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Paul Wise 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 als
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-dis
Thanks Fabian, that make sense, we also having a look at this
eric
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From: Fabian Greffrath [mailto:fab...@debian.org]
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 8:46 AM
To: Eric Mittelette
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: RE: Debian package on Windows
Hi there
Hi there,
for my occasional development on Windows I use Msys2 which have Arch's
pacman package management system ported to Windows and even provide a
huge repository of pre-compiled package. It's not APT, but at least a
reasonable packaging system and a bash shell on Windows to begin with.
;)
Be
> I could be useful to create a Debian GNU/ReactOS port to avoid the
> proprietary software dependency of a cross-compiled-only port.
Really? Wow!
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igor
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Subject: Re: Debian package on Windows
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I think people in general have concluded that such a port would be
> mostly useful only to cross-build, but not to run stuff.
I could be useful to create a Debian GNU/R
Subject: Re: Debian package on Windows
Hi,
Eric Mittelette wrote:
> I'm PM in the Visual C++ Team (VC Lib to be precise here at
> Microsoft), we started to think about lib acquisition (still a painful
> process for
> C++ on Windows) and we are imaging different options, one is to
Hi,
Eric Mittelette wrote:
> I'm PM in the Visual C++ Team (VC Lib to be precise here at Microsoft),
> we started to think about lib acquisition (still a painful process for
> C++ on Windows) and we are imaging different options, one is to port
> apt-get on Windows.
> Porting Apt-Get mean using
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I think people in general have concluded that such a port would be mostly
> useful only to cross-build, but not to run stuff.
I could be useful to create a Debian GNU/ReactOS port to avoid the
proprietary software dependency of a cross-compi
Hi!
On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 14:05:33 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> [ for -devel: this is a reply to a post to debian-apache, please see
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2016/02/msg4.html ]
Inlining parts of that mail here:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 01:09:18 +, Eric Mittelette wrot
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> From: j...@debian.org
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> CC: ericm...@microsoft.com; debian-apa...@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian package on Windows
>
> [ for -devel: this is a reply to a post to debian-apache, please see
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-apac
[ for -devel: this is a reply to a post to debian-apache, please see
https://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2016/02/msg4.html ]
Hi Eric,
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
awa
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