[Cialug] Well Done Microsoft?

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If its not better than cygwin then it is a failure. Cygwin is suffering.

Purcell

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had 2 of my computers update,is there a howto that explains the linux
> for windows stuff? I've been messing with cygwin lately and I'm wondering
> if it was any better than cygwin..
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Jared Brees <fromj2sitsme at msn.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I haven't had a whole lot of luck with it. While it says I'm "root", I
> > can't even ping... unless I run it as administrator.
> > So, I set the executable to run as administrator.
> > Now I can ping, but not run NMap. Something with the way Windows handles
> > wireless connections doesn't allow for much fancy network stuff to be
> done
> > over Wi-Fi. I ran into this a year or so ago when I tried to run wireless
> > Wireshark on Windows 7. Apparently the Ubuntu shell they added still has
> > this limitation (these limitations?).
> > Or perhaps I'm just doing it wrong. It's happened before. :-)
> > Jared Brees - Squirrel Photographer
> >
> > > From: neomatrixjr at gmail.com
> > > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:20:18 -0400
> > > To: cialug at cialug.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Cialug] Well Done Microsoft?
> > >
> > > Not supposed to be custom. The "kernel" is a custom interface I
> believe,
> > > but everything else is supposed to be stock. It has some limitations.
> It
> > > doesn't start at boot and has no gui (not sure if you can install/run x
> > or
> > > not).
> > >
> > > On Sep 29, 2016 10:25 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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