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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon bmatzelle

Microsoft just released Ubuntu on Windows ...

Open roterdam opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

How does this impact this project?

roterdam avatar Mar 31 '16 05:03 roterdam

The same as anything Microsoft says. I'll believe it when it's available for download and it solves our issues. Trust me, I'd prefer to have MS do it. I'd also prefer they did it 10 years ago when it was a novel idea.

bmatzelle avatar Mar 31 '16 18:03 bmatzelle

I'm using Ubuntu on Windows on one of my machines. It's not a direct competitor with GOW.

GOW provides the ability to use certain gnu utilities from within batch files, nmake and msbuild scripts, and so on. It understands native Windows paths.

Ubuntu on Windows provides a super high performance alternative to Cygwin. It runs the entire ubuntu userspace with apt-get. Whatever packages are available on Ubuntu are available for you. This means that you have the typical path translation problems -- since Ubuntu doesn't grok C:/.

cbuschardt avatar Apr 20 '16 00:04 cbuschardt