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Originally posted by Cthulhux View Post
No, it's a new NT subsystem without an emulation layer.
Which software has not worked on Windows before?
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Originally posted by gerddie View Post
Does this free me from compiling the software specifically for Windows? It doesn't seem so, and this means I would still have to port my software.
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Originally posted by gerddie View Post
Does this free me from compiling the software specifically for Windows? It doesn't seem so, and this means I would still have to port my software.I’m in San Francisco this week, attending Microsoft’s Build developer conference, as a sponsored guest of Microsoft.That’s perhaps a bit odd for me, as I hadn’t used Windows in nearly 16 years. But that changed a few months ago, as I embarked on […]
*Here, we’re talking about bit-for-bit, checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries running directly in Windows.*
So technicaly you don't need to port your application for Windows as Ubuntu binary run BUT if you want your application runnable on older Windows than Windows 10, you have to port/recompile them.
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Originally posted by duby229 View Post
I think what it means is that app developers can pull this as a dependency and they get all the benefits of an ubuntu command line userspace.Originally posted by RavFX View PostI’m in San Francisco this week, attending Microsoft’s Build developer conference, as a sponsored guest of Microsoft.That’s perhaps a bit odd for me, as I hadn’t used Windows in nearly 16 years. But that changed a few months ago, as I embarked on […]
*Here, we’re talking about bit-for-bit, checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries running directly in Windows.*
I think you misunderstood my comment, I was refering to https://chocolatey.org/ pointed to by Cthulhux, which is kind of a packaging manager for Windows software with a certain amount of dependency tracking.
I understand that the Ubuntu-on-Windows thingy is an application that provides an Ubuntu environment within Windows. So when I want to use some software that is packaged for the supported Ubuntu version one can install this Ubuntu-on-Windows app and then install and run the packaged software within the environment. As a developer all I would have to care about is to make sure my software is packaged for Ubuntu.
What I'm really wondering though is whether software run within this environment can make use of an X server like xming.Last edited by gerddie; 05 April 2016, 01:10 PM.
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