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Ubuntu on Windows

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2049 points bpierre | 2 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. bigger_cheese ◴[30 Mar 16 22:10 UTC] No.11393427[source]▶
If it can run GCC and EMACS I'm pretty happy. At the moment I have to use Msys.

Are Ubuntu's libraries available. Could you theoretically produce a statically linked binary under Windows and then run it natively in 'real' linux

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2. mdip ◴[31 Mar 16 00:21 UTC] No.11394112[source]▶
emacs and gcc - Yes - they actually demoed emacs in the keynote and gcc in the later discussion at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488?ocid=player).

So many tools require compiling/building in Cygwin and it'll be quite convenient to just be able to do that without the extra layer.

As for Ubuntu's libraries - Aptitude is there and you can apt-get quite a bit. I believe you could -- in some cases -- static link and run in "real" linux. They were pretty insistent that this is "real Ubuntu" -- basically they've done the reverse of Wine, mapping Linux calls to Win API equivalents, so that might open up the scenario you're thinking about.