I enjoyed using git-bash (https://git-for-windows.github.io/) -- it allowed me to use bash, Perl and git on a Windows 7 laptop at my last contract. Far better than the provided configuration of Windows Power (sic) Shell and the mammoth IDE Eclipse. On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:05 PM, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I just tried "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" (yes, it's real title). With this, there are now 4 ways of running Unix tools on Windows.
1. busybox -- single binary running on Windows.
2. Cygwin -- you download and install bunch of programs, like bash, bc, awk, sed, etc, that will run natively on Windows.
3. VirtualBox -- full VM.
4. Bash on Ubuntu on Windows -- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS command line on Windows 10 (64bit only). I kind of like it, because it's "official" and will replace Cygwin, at least. Busybox is still useful for other Windows, but as Windows10x64 becomes the standard, it will be replaced too. -- William --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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