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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: FlamingCobra on March 30, 2016, 02:46:43 pm
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http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash
I've also heard they are bringing the Ubuntu userspace to Windows as well as the ability to run Linux binaries natively. Like Wine, but in reverse.
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i bet stallman's gnawing his toes off in rage
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(i dunno why people keep selling this short by calling it 'bash on windows', it's basically a full 'linux' environment running natively in a windows system; it's nearly a direct counterpart to WINE)
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MS released a video which should answer a lot of questions you might have:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488?ocid=player
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(i dunno why people keep selling this short by calling it 'bash on windows', it's basically a full 'linux' environment running natively in a windows system; it's nearly a direct counterpart to WINE)
Speaking of WINE (and this thing), I'm genuinely surprised no one has written some software that allows one to run OS X binaries on Linux or Windows natively.
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(i dunno why people keep selling this short by calling it 'bash on windows', it's basically a full 'linux' environment running natively in a windows system; it's nearly a direct counterpart to WINE)
Speaking of WINE (and this thing), I'm genuinely surprised no one has written some software that allows one to run OS X binaries on Linux or Windows natively.
...And what, exactly, would you want to run with this capability? It's not like there's a lot of popular OS X-only games out there.
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Or OS-X exclusive applications without counterparts or official ports to Windows, for that matter.
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Bafflingly, much of the web development community is Mac-centric, so a lot of webdev-related apps are Mac only.
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I think it's because of hipster culture.
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(i dunno why people keep selling this short by calling it 'bash on windows', it's basically a full 'linux' environment running natively in a windows system; it's nearly a direct counterpart to WINE)
Speaking of WINE (and this thing), I'm genuinely surprised no one has written some software that allows one to run OS X binaries on Linux or Windows natively.
It'd be a ton of effort to maintain, just like WINE is, and as outlined above there wouldn't be a great deal of benefit from doing so. You can kind of look at GNUstep as a very incomplete equivalent to winelib, but it's a very long way from a full compatibility layer.
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Well this is a surprising boost from MS for open-source software. While most major open-source software has been ported to Windows, there are still a fair number of more utility-type or niche applications that are written solely for Linux. Be nice to finally be able to run them from within the environment where I actually need them :)
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A lot of Linux people are extremely (and reasonably) worried that this is the first E of Microsoft's notorious Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy. As far as I know it hasn't resulted in much direct contribution to free software; I don't think the compatibility layer with the Windows kernel is open-source.
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I wonder if this would enable the use of Plasma or Cinnamon on windows
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It won't; they apparently have no plans for GUI compatibility.
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It's also worth noting that you won't be able to launch Windows software directly from the Linux environment (because Linux processes work very differently to Windows ones); this is very much a tool for developers, not general use.