Re: [Discuss] WSL 2

2019-05-09 Thread Rich Pieri
On Thu, 9 May 2019 22:15:20 -0400 Bill Bogstad wrote: > This 60 minute video from Microsoft answers a number of my questions: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhMThePdIo Will watch this later, but for now... > Yes. Using an optimized Hyper-V system developed for servers. Pretty much

Re: [Discuss] WSL 2

2019-05-09 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 9:43 PM Bill Bogstad wrote: > > On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 5:40 PM Rich Pieri wrote: > >... > > WSL 2 will ship with a fully GPL compliant (including patches), > > reasonably current Linux kernel running in a lightweight virtual > > machine. Reasons cited are better

Re: [Discuss] Trying to install Tor on Fedora

2019-05-09 Thread Nancy Allison
Thank you so much for this informative answer, Mike! I foolhardily went ahead and did manage to run the installation file -- after John Abreau kindly helped me out and explained, among other things, that Nautilus won't run an executable like the Tor starter file. When I opened Gladiator or

Re: [Discuss] Trying to install Tor on Fedora

2019-05-09 Thread Mike Small
Nancy Allison writes: > Hi, all. I sent this reply to Rich but forgot to include the list. > > I am your Test Case par excellence: someone trying to use Fedora who is not > terribly technical. Can Linux be used by people for whom it is really a > challenge, even things that to technical people