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

[Barry Von Ahsen]

GNU/windows !  :D

-barry


> On Mar 31, 2016, at 10:50 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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