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Ubuntu on Windows

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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.459s | source
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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.

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1. drewg123 ◴[30 Mar 16 17:26 UTC] No.11391105[source]▶
*BSD and Solaris have done have run linux binaries for years. Doing it on Windows is a bit more impressive, but given that there is a POSIX subsystem, its not all that surprising.

I didn't see any information about whether they do it using direct system call translation, or if they do it using shared library inter-positioning. In either case, its pretty cool!