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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by EvanAnderson on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @02:23PM (#11391676)
NT shipped w/ a POSIX subsystem. Later, Microsoft acquired Interix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix), a more fully-featured POSIX subsystem. I have fond memories, in the late 1990's, of running GNU tools on NT under Interix.
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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by TeMPOraL on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @02:58PM (#11391955)
Same here. It's like everyone forgot there was such a thing as SFU/SUA. I found it much more pleasant to work with than Cygwin.
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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by krylon on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @03:14PM (#11392099)
> It's like everyone forgot there was such a thing as SFU/SUA

Well, it's not like Microsoft made much of an effort to remind people. It was discontinued as a separate project after about Windows XP. It continued to be part of Windows Server[1], but AFAIK, it was no longer present in the client versions.

[1] at least until 2008 or 2008 R2, I didn't check later versions.

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by SSLy on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @03:28PM (#11392222)
last it was avaiable in windows 8 enterprise
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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by krylon on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @11:55PM (#11394875)
I stand corrected.

Thanks for the info!

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