[Cialug] Ubuntu usermode ported to Windows: a sign of the end times?

[David Champion]

To be clear, this is not running Linux on Windows, it's running bash on
Windows. Which you can already do with various tools like cygwin.

Linux itself is the kernel. So you can't remove the kernel from Linux,
you'd have... nothing.

-dc

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:

> Easier to just do it on a Linux than try and make windows box be a linux
> box.
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> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Sean Flattery
> <sean.r.flattery at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Microsoft is working with Canonical to bring Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS to
> Windows
> > 10 later this summer.  They've removed the Linux kernel and built syscall
> > interpreters into the Windows kernel so Linux can run natively on Windows
> > without the need for a VM.  There's an astonishing demo video here, along
> > with more info.
> >
> >
> https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/
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