[Cialug] Well Done Microsoft?

Dan Hockey icepuck2k at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 10:16:19 CDT 2016


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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