News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on And no new Macs were announced once more. Parent comment

Re:And no new Macs were announced once more by Waterluvian on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:54AM (#12450589)
What is "Ubuntu on Windows"?

Are you using that new fangled Linux literally in Windows thing I heard of? How's that going?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:And no new Macs were announced once more by mrighele on Thursday September 08, 2016 @02:24AM (#12450705)
He's probably referring to "Windows Subsystem for Linux" which is a compatibility layer for Windows 10 that allows you to run unmodified Ubuntu binaries. It is also called "Ubuntu on Windows" since the userspace part is based on Ubuntu [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux

[2] https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:And no new Macs were announced once more by socmag on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:27AM (#12450956)
I use Linux Mint for most of my dev work, but thought I'd give the new Ubuntu subsystem on Windows a try yesterday side it came with the Windows 10 Anniversary update. It seems to work as advertised.

My only complaint thus far is that all the packages that you can get via apt-get seem really ancient. I had to go through hell building a lot of stuff myself to get anything remotely recent running.

After much pain, I finally got our product built and running, ran it then tried to connect to it and it core dumped. That's probably my fault I guess. I haven't dug into that yet, but there must be some platform difference I'm not aware of.

Anyway, it seems pretty stable in general although a little quirky. Having direct access between the Windows file system and the *nix side is pretty cool too.

I don't think I'll be switching to it full time but it is certainly interesting.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:And no new Macs were announced once more by Eridrus on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:21AM (#12452289)
WSL Uses Ubuntu 14.04 with no plans to upgrade it soon. Some people have had success upgrading to 16.04, but I haven't run into enough recency issues to justify trying.

It still has a lot of rough edges, but they seem to be actively working on it, so I'm hopeful this leads to a virtuous cycle of more developers using it and more investment from Microsoft.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:And no new Macs were announced once more by bdcravens on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:43AM (#12451036)
> all the packages that you can get via apt-get seem really ancient

I think this is an Ubuntu issue, even on stand-alone Ubuntu. I assume the subsystem lets you add PPAs like in vanilla Ubuntu?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:And no new Macs were announced once more by socmag on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:25AM (#12451722)
Actually I take that back. I did get GCC-6 installed via PPA. Not sure why the other ones had issues.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:And no new Macs were announced once more by socmag on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:22AM (#12451185)
It does, but for some reason it didn't seem to work. I was totally unable to install later versions of GCC, CMake or Node. Had to manually install from releases or build from source.

Maybe I screwed something up, but I really did try.

[ Parent | on HN ]