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
On 16-12-23 07:05 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
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.
5 ways if you include MSYS. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:35:53PM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 16-12-23 07:05 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
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.
5 ways if you include MSYS.
Is that the same family as Cygwin? -- William
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 09:00:54PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:35:53PM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 16-12-23 07:05 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
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.
5 ways if you include MSYS.
Is that the same family as Cygwin?
I don't think so. The MSYS tools tend to behave much more like native windows tools than cygwin does. Cygwin seems more like using the new ubuntu on windows stuff, except that one is actual linux binaries rather than recompiled for cygwin binaries. -- Len Sorensen
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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