Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by atmosx on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:05AM (#13217842)

> The new Linux subsystem thing is a god-send.

Does that mean I get a UNIX env/shell on windows?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by UnoriginalGuy on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:12AM (#13217863)

Yes. Ubuntu 14.04 specifically[0].

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

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by Bedon292 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:22PM (#13222449)

And 16.04 is on developer preview, so that should hopefully be coming to everyone soon. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/release_not...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by shams93 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:18AM (#13218090)

The only painful bit is that they don't yet support the nvidia drivers, I'm doing rnn under the linux subsystem and it works great except I'm hurting for gpu access. If you plan on using windows subsystem for linux for machine learning don't bother spending money on a GPU https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by stinos on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:37AM (#13218354)

Yup, and to my (and many others' surprise), this thing works actually very well. Not every single app will run but all of the basics for what we need here (mainly gcc) seem to be fine. And it runs graphical apps as well: run an X server on Windows (Moba XTerm or so), export DISPLAY=:0 and of you go. Only tried it with SublimeText so far and that worked out so no complaints yet.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by nikofeyn on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:08AM (#13217850)

yes.

[ Parent | on HN ]