[Cialug] Ubuntu usermode ported to Windows: a sign of the end times?

Justin Richeson neomatrixjr at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 09:58:21 CDT 2016


I wonder how mount points/drive assignments will work...?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Barry Von Ahsen <vonahsen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> GNU/windows !  :D
>
> -barry
>
>
> > On Mar 31, 2016, at 10:50 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > To be clear, this is not running Linux on Windows, it's running bash on
> > Windows. Which you can already do with various tools like cygwin.
> >
> > Linux itself is the kernel. So you can't remove the kernel from Linux,
> > you'd have... nothing.
> >
> > -dc
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Easier to just do it on a Linux than try and make windows box be a linux
> >> box.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Sean Flattery
> >> <sean.r.flattery at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Microsoft is working with Canonical to bring Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS to
> >> Windows
> >>> 10 later this summer.  They've removed the Linux kernel and built
> syscall
> >>> interpreters into the Windows kernel so Linux can run natively on
> Windows
> >>> without the need for a VM.  There's an astonishing demo video here,
> along
> >>> with more info.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/
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