|
|
|
|
|
|
by davidgerard
3680 days ago
|
|
|
When I'm stuck on Windows I install Cygwin and live in the Cygwin shell. It's almost like home. I found it very useful for monitoring - instead of waiting for someone to write e.g. a Nagios script for the thing you want to keep an eye on, you can just write a bash script. I have yet to have to try the official Microsoft bash. The question is whether it is competitive with Cygwin for these purposes. i.e., does it carry all the other GNU tools with it. I gave up using Windows when the Windows rot got too bad after about a year and I couldn't be bothered reinstalling. YMMV. |
|
|
That's the wrong question. Microsoft doesn't bundle toolsets with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It provides a binary-compatible platform, and Ubuntu provides the toolsets. Or Fedora, people having already run Fedora on the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
So the right question is Does Ubuntu/Fedora carry all of the GNU tools?, subordinated by Do they require any of pseudo-terminals, framebuffers, signals to Win32 processes, or a proper daemon branch of the process tree?
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11581935