[Cialug] Well Done Microsoft?

[Jimmy Lela]

I was going to recommend that same HowtoGeek article, they do a good job of
explaining.  Also, I've been using GnuOnWindows (GoW) for a while and
liking it.  It's just a small subset of commands and doesn't always behave
identically, but it's much cleaner and simpler than CygWin.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley <
daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:

> Here's how to set it up. I just Googled "windows 10 anniversary update
> linux" and clicked the first link. The steps looked right from what i
> remember when i installed it on my Windows VM.
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/249966/how-to-install-and-use-
> the-linux-bash-shell-on-windows-10/
>
> I've only used Cygwin a small amount, years ago. It worked, but was
> pretty rough around the edges. The Linux that comes from the
> Microsoft/Ubuntu collaboration pretty much just works.
>
> On 2016-09-30 10:16, Dan Hockey 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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> >>> Tim
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