The thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is Docker. Microsoft is a pretty big supporter, recently, and they have just announced Docker container deployment on their Azure cloud offering. At the moment, Docker only runs on Linux, because it uses Linux kernel internals. I suspect one of the main goals
> Basically, they seem to have implemented the inverse of WINE
> (https://www.winehq.org/): a subsystem within Windows that does live
> translation between the
> Windows API and Linux syscalls. Apparently it does it without much drop in
> performance...which is pretty impressive.
Not too surpri
ulation support covered what was needed by the container.
Cheers,
Trevor
[1]: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html
[2]:
http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2016-March/004139.html
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Bash in Windows
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:50:05PM -0500, Mark Laufersweiler wrote:
> And a command line is not a windows environment. So unless they put
> hooks into the DirectX directly (ugh), then there is still the need
> to have X11 hanging around there somewhere. But maybe then again
> apt-get install X11*
On 30 Mar 2016, at 19:44, W. Trevor King wrote:
> I'm not sure how that would happen though. Have Canonical/Microsoft
> ported all of those applications to also run on a Windows kernel? Are
> they using something like Cygwin's shim layer to put a POSIX interface
> on top of Window's kernel?
Th
And a command line is not a windows environment. So unless they put hooks into
the DirectX directly (ugh), then there is still the need to have X11 hanging
around there somewhere. But maybe then again apt-get install X11*
-mjl
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On 03/30/2016 02:44 PM, W. Trevor King wrote:
It's not April 1st yet is it? Because this [1] makes it look like
Windows will also support apt-get (after you turn all this on via a
developer setting). Which would be pretty awesome, and mean we could
replace all our Windows-installation hoop jump
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 08:07:54PM +0200, Lukas Weber wrote:
> FYI, apparently Microsoft is adding Bash to Windows 10 in the next
> big update mid-year:
> http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash
It's not April 1st yet is it? Because this [1] makes it look li
Hi everyone,
FYI, apparently Microsoft is adding Bash to Windows 10 in the next big
update mid-year:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash
If this is real, it will make things much much easier for teaching Shell
lessons.
Cheers,
Lukas
Lukas Weber
PhD st
