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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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xaduha ◴[30 Mar 16 17:10 UTC] No.11390950[source]▶
> Windows 10 users

> Can open the Windows Start menu

> And type "bash" [enter]

> Which opens a cmd.exe console

Right... Bash is a shell, but your interaction with it is controlled by a terminal program. Unless there are some real changes to cmd.exe t̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶m̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶i̶v̶e̶ . You can compile a native bash and other utils now yourself, it's not that hard.

EDIT: It's more like a Linuxulator from BSD, which is certainly cool.

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tlrobinson ◴[30 Mar 16 17:12 UTC] No.11390968[source]▶
> "Hum, well it's like cygwin perhaps?" Nope! Cygwin includes open source utilities are recompiled from source to run natively in Windows. Here, we're talking about bit-for-bit, checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries running directly in Windows.
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1. seren ◴[30 Mar 16 17:17 UTC] No.11391009[source]▶
If you write a command line utility, just putting in ubuntu repo makes it available to all windows user, without even recompiling.