[Cialug] Well Done Microsoft?

[Scott Yates]

Yes, it works VERY well for me too!  Perl, Python, Ruby, Node, etc..  All
seem to work as expected.  Midnight Commander....  Pretty much everything
but X.

Really surprising!

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com>
wrote:

> Speaking of MS, has anyone seen the Anniversary Edition of Win10?  I know
> this was talked about a few months ago, but I couldn't believe it until I
> saw it.  You can enable features to turn on native bash.  There's a few
> small hoops that you need to jump through, but you can run bash as well as
> a host of other Linux commands.  It downloads some flavor of Ubuntu, I'm
> guessing customized for this purpose.  And as advertised, the executables
> are ELF format, not just recompiled to EXEs.  Amazing how some new
> leadership at MS can have such an impact.
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>
> > Scary that kind of processing power.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:46 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Nice, bleeding edge use of FPGAs
> > >
> > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/
> > 09/programmable-chips-turning-azure-into-a-supercomputing-powerhouse/
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