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15+ years ago Microsoft shipped a UNIX subsystem for Windows NT/2k. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
by thought_alarm 11y ago
15+ years ago Microsoft shipped a UNIX subsystem for Windows NT/2k.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
It blew my mind at the time, but it was kind of a pain and I didn't stick with it. I don't remember why.
I guess this is about same thing, only its Linux instead of some other sort of UNIX.
- rejschaap 11y agoThe article also reminded me of this. I didn't use it much because Cygwin was a little less painful.
- bahamat 11y agoThe significant difference here is that it's running unmodified Linux binaries. Compile on Linux, run in windows. You should be able to compile functioning Linux binaries on Windows and run them on Linux as well.