On 31/03/2016 18:57, Ted Roche wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
That means bash etc
I'm *quite* sure this isn't an April Fool ...
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the-ubuntu-userspac...
Anybody have some good insight as to why MS probably paid Canonical a bunch of money to port all the console tools to Windows? Was the PowerShell/DotNetCLI not up to the task?
Will we have to start calling in GNU/Windows?
My cynical side thinks that far too many people saw the change to Win10 as a leap too far, and if they had to handle that much change they might as well go for Ubuntu/ Mint, this would allow these people to put a foot into that camp while remaining firmly tied to ms' apron strings. My whimsical side remembers a PC User Group meeting in London around 1985: a senior honcho from ms UK said that the next version of msDos would be binary compatible with Unix..... at a meeting a couple of months later this was completely pooh-poohed. They handed out free copies of Windows 1.0 - on a good commercial PC the windows part was so slow as to be unusable (the underlying was still Dos). My realistic side sees this as a possible alternative to my Win10/Mint dual booter.
(The tricky bit may be threads/ processes).