Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by bitcrazed on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:43PM (#13697572)

Yeah, to be clear here: We worked with the networking team to enable Linux Ping to open a raw socket, but we've not enabled carte blanche raw-socket support for all Linux processes.

We are, however, continuing to work on solving these and several other networking issues to close the gap in our networking support.

As a work-around, you could always call Windows' tracert.exe via the interop feature ;)

An if you're just using standard sockets technologies (e.g. HTTP, TLS, FTP, SSH, etc.) all should be good.

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Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by nrclark on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @01:27PM (#13697996)

Any chance we'll see a first-party X11 server at some point? XMing, VCXsrv, and Cygwin/X all have some warts when it comes to stuff like windows previewing, copy/paste, acceleration, and fonts. OS X has shipped with an optional X11 server forever, and it would be great to see that feature parity in Windows.

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Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by bitcrazed on Thursday February 23, 2017 @09:19PM (#13720290)

No plans at this time; we're focusing entirely on command-line tools & scenarios right now. Besides, there are plenty of X Servers out there, no?

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