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Re:Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linu... by aq3cn on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:51AM (#12816444)
I wonder if MS finds a way to port open source Linux apps in Windows 10.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linu... by NetStrikeForce on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:43PM (#12817916)
Isn't WSL the shotgun approach to answer your question? There's no need to port thousands of useful tools; create the WSL and poof! most of it runs out of the box, natively, in Windows.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linu... by JdeBP on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:17PM (#12819696)
See discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416376
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