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2049 points bpierre | 3 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.585s | source

1. rocky1138 ◴[30 Mar 16 18:22 UTC] No.11391671[source]▶

Is this better, the same, or worse than git bash?

2. ibrahima ◴[30 Mar 16 18:28 UTC] No.11391714[source]▶

Better, it seems like this is literally running the same Linux binaries as would run on Ubuntu on Windows. Git bash uses msys so those binaries are recompiled for Windows. And he casually mentioned apt, which is pretty crazy if they can actually have the standard apt repositories working on Windows without modification.

3. tdicola ◴[30 Mar 16 18:30 UTC] No.11391740[source]▶

>>11391671 (TP) #

Completely different. Git bash is based on msys which is a suite of Linux/Unix tools ported to compile and run natively on Windows. This is taking actual Linux programs and running them as-is on Windows. Wherever the Linux programs make system calls to the Linux kernel, etc. there is a shim layer from MS that translates those calls into Windows system calls. It's not going to be 100% perfect compatibility with every app, but will probably support a lot more stuff than msys.

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