←back to thread

Ubuntu on Windows

(blog.dustinkirkland.com)
2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
Show context
zymhan ◴[30 Mar 16 17:09 UTC] No.11390932[source]▶
"Linux geeks can think of it sort of the inverse of "wine" -- Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows. Microsoft calls it their "Windows Subsystem for Linux"."

I find it amazing that you can have such a functional Ubuntu environment by translating system calls. Microsoft does have the advantage of Linux being open-source I suppose, while the Wine project had to reverse engineer DLLs. Or have you supply them on your own.

replies(9): >>11391001 #>>11391011 #>>11391074 #>>11391084 #>>11391105 #>>11391166 #>>11391290 #>>11391798 #>>11391866 #
1. grandalf ◴[30 Mar 16 17:16 UTC] No.11391001[source]▶
Indeed. Perhaps it will increasingly make sense to design software for Linux and then run it on windows via this method. Over time the Windows system calls that are not needed by the linux overlay can be phased out.