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They added a subsystem in Windows that responds to Linux APIs.
by pionar 11y ago
They added a subsystem in Windows that responds to Linux APIs.
- tkubacki 11y agoLol "linux is a cancer" has new meaning now :)
- stcredzero 11y agoIs it a cancer if it doesn't kill you, but actually helps you be stronger? Maybe Linux is more like gut bacteria now. Linux is E.Coli?
- tripzilch 11y agoe.coli isn't a gut bacterium, ... is it?
- fla 11y agoThink of it as Wine, reversed.
- darkr 11y agoEniw?
- unclenoriega 11y agoEmulator Not In Windows Sorry it's not recursive.
- stcredzero 11y agoEnterprise Networked Internet Workstation?
- ant6n 11y agoENIW is 'Nix In Windows
- vram22 11y agoVinegar?
- vram22 11y agoEverywhere Now Is Windows
- PeCaN 11y agoThey've had a POSIX subsystem (SUA) for a while, but it's kind of ancient. I assume they resurrected it and implemented some Linux-specific APIs, which would actually be SO COOL.
- bitcrazed 11y agoNo - this is a whole new thing. The Windows POSIX subsystem which shipped in NT 3.5.1 was a minimal implementation of POSIX syscall API plus a userland toolset. That was replaced with Interix which was renamed Services for Unix (SFU) which had a more comprehensive kernel implementation and more up to date userland. However that tech was not resurrected to build the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Importantly, WSL doesn't ship with a distro - we download a genuine Ubuntu userland image at install-time and then run binaries within it.
- tavert 11y ago> Importantly, WSL doesn't ship with a distro - we download a genuine Ubuntu userland image at install-time and then run binaries within it. So can we use WSL by itself and pick a different distro, if we'd rather use say Alpine or openSUSE or Arch's userland?
- JdeBP 11y ago> However that tech was not resurrected ... I, for one, would like to see it resurrected. It's exceedingly useful, and is one major reason that I am not, nor will be, using Windows 10. This new subsystem does not have the things that I use SFU/SFUA for. Nor does it have the BSD-style toolset of SFU/SFUA.
- brobinson 11y agoDoes Windows 10 still ship with the OS/2 subsystem? (os2ss.exe)
- gpvos 11y agoIt was dropped with Windows XP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT#User_mode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT#Use...
- drinchev 11y agoCurious to see what's the support of the Windows API then. Follow up questions would be if it will support kernel-dependent utils like tcpdump, ifconfig, etc.
- keithpeter 11y agoSo LINE on Windows like WINE on Linux? Seriously:shows an appreciation of where a lot of the workload for computer programmers is these days.
- igravious 11y agoCame here to say that. It'd be nice if they open-sourced it so it wasn't yanked away from under our feet one day :) But maybe they are? I shouldn't presume they are not.
- jdcarter 11y agoIn other words, they're not using "Linux" at all. It's an Ubuntu userland on top of the Windows kernel, similar to how Nexenta was an Ubuntu userland on top of the OpenSolaris kernel.
- bitcrazed 11y agoYou pretty much nailed it :)