MS is doing what?

[Damien]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash

mind = boggled

- Damien

[Peter Hewett]

Are they a day ahead of themselves?

Was this intended to be published tomorrow (1 April)?

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[matt]

yer it starting to look like that A
wheres the download for beta testing!!

[James Gray]

bash in a POSIX compliant OS??? Strange...

[Vince Martin-Smith]

Saves loading up Cygwin on all my windoze machines :)  Certainly keen to check it out - see if other *nix type utilities are present.

[Damien]

I just got around to watching the video on the article, they are creating a thing they call "Windows SubSystem for Linux" that translates the system calls from Linux to Windows so you can run ELF binaries on Windows, so when you run "bash" or "ssh" you are running the exact same binary file as you would as if you downloaded Ubuntu. In the video they showed that git wasn't installed, so the ran "apt-get install git" and it went to Canonical's servers and downloaded and installed it, then he could clone a git repository, edit it, push it back, they also showed the /proc directory works.

Of course there's a lot not working yet, apparently top causes bad things to the terminal and MySQL has issues.

[Vince Martin-Smith]

Still a step in the right direction :)

[Damien]

Absolutely, I'm wondering how they're going to handle the differences between Unix's file/folder security model and NTFS's, you can't really easily translate between the Unix rwxrwxrwx model and MS's being able to have multiple groups and users having permissions on a file and their Full Control, Modify, Read & Execute, Read, and Write permissions.