| From: James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> | Lessee now... If I run Windows in a virtual machine, as I do now, then | I'd have Linux running on Windows running on Linux. I guess 2 out of 3 | ain't bad! :-) | | http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-canonical-partner-to-bring-ubuntu-to-windows-10/?tag=nl.e539&s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61 A slightly more informative article from the same source: <http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-not-linux-on-windows-how-it-works/> Interesting. I don't think that an X application will run. No Linux desktop. Even programs like screen don't work, but that may be easy to fix. It isn't clear how useful this can be. If you really want linux on Windows, I would guess virtualbox or the like would do a better job. If you want command-line tools to muck within the Windows environment, cygwin probably does the job as well. Both would have a translation layer, at least for pathnames. And PowerShell ought to be a better choice. It won't have an impedance mismatch with Windows. The design of PowerShell (Monad) looked good to me when it came out (but I have never tried it).