Re:And no new Macs were announced once more
by Eridrus on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:21AM
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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.
Re:And no new Macs were announced once more
by bdcravens on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:43AM
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> 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?
Re:And no new Macs were announced once more
by socmag on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:25AM
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Actually I take that back. I did get GCC-6 installed via PPA. Not sure why the other ones had issues.
Re:And no new Macs were announced once more
by socmag on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:22AM
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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.
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.