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Out of curiosity, how is the Linux integration? Does it feel like native, or is it disjointed like Cygwin always has?
by alecthomas 10y ago
Out of curiosity, how is the Linux integration? Does it feel like native, or is it disjointed like Cygwin always has?
- ChuckMcM 10y agoI find it much more useful/natural than cygwin. The places where it reminds me it isn't Linux is when something wants to create a Unix domain socket (screen) or needs access to /dev or something like that. CPAN works fine as does ssh and most things I use from the command line (gcc embedded and make, vim, etc). Nothing that would pop up an xwindow works (as expected).
- bitcrazed 10y agoIn more recent Windows Insider builds, Tmux & Screen now work correctly, as does network connection enumeration (e.g. via ifconfig), sshd works as expected, along with MySQL, Apache, nginx, etc.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoI am clearly very excited that you seem to be making this a 'real' thing rather than just a talking point. You realize there is a 'usb over ethernet' spec right? And using that and a windows service on a local socket on the windows side you could arbitrate exclusive access to plugged in USB devices to the Bash shell user right?