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Ubuntu on Windows

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2049 points bpierre | 5 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.623s | source
1. ilmiont ◴[30 Mar 16 18:26 UTC] No.11391704[source]▶
I wonder what implications this has for SSH for PowerShell... Microsoft were originally planning to release native SSH in PowerShell this summer. But now it seems redundant when you could just use Bash anyway...
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2. kodablah ◴[30 Mar 16 19:12 UTC] No.11392080[source]▶
I don't think it's redundant. Many people want to remote into Windows' native shell without having bash present.
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3. breakingcups ◴[30 Mar 16 20:33 UTC] No.11392761[source]▶
Some sysadmins might want to be able to SSH into their servers from Windows without actually having a complete Linux userspace installed.
4. new_hackers ◴[30 Mar 16 21:57 UTC] No.11393359[source]▶
what these guys said, also when you consider that automating tasks for both your WinRM-able and SSH-able machines would be very easy. Does bash support WinRM or WMI as well as PowerShell?
5. joeyaiello ◴[31 Mar 16 04:06 UTC] No.11394918[source]▶
It's not redundant, and that's why our work is continuing to go forward. We're definitely not cancelling our plans[1] to deliver native Win32 OpenSSH any time soon.

[1] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/Win32-OpenS...