Re: [NF] M$ is getting serious of a new direction?

On 4 April 2016 at 16:15, Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com wrote:

This is an incredible steal of tallent.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/head-of-oracle-linux-moves-to-microsoft/

It's going to be interesting to see how MS implements Linux space on Windows.

Here's a nice demo: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about

We already have Cygwin but it is pretty slow (and quirky).

e.g. Building something like GCC under Cygwin takes forever. On a Debian virtual machine running on the same hardware it sped through.