| jcastro | jrwren: are you frantically reinstalling windows on all your machines now? | 16:30 |
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| cmaloney | ? | 16:31 |
| cmaloney | Ubuntu Release? | 16:31 |
| jcastro | cmaloney: MS just announced that you can run ubuntu userspace in windows | 16:33 |
| jcastro | you hit the start button, type bash, hit enter | 16:33 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, that's what I was referring | 16:33 |
| jcastro | reverse WINE basically | 16:33 |
| jcastro | and since we know jrwren is windows fan #1 | 16:33 |
| cmaloney | So basically Cygwin | 16:33 |
| jcastro | cygwin is a recompile | 16:34 |
| jcastro | what they do is translate linux syscalls to the windows kernel | 16:34 |
| jcastro | so it's the exact same binary | 16:34 |
| cmaloney | Interesting | 16:35 |
| jcastro | indeed | 16:36 |
| cmaloney | So what's the catch? :) | 16:36 |
| jcastro | none really | 16:37 |
| jcastro | it's for windows developers that want real linux tools | 16:37 |
| jrwren | jcastro: hell no. | 16:39 |
| jrwren | if this had happend 5 yrs ago, I'd have loved it. Now it is late, and maybe a bit desparate. | 16:39 |
| jrwren | Its amazing that they did it right though. Add elf support to windows, make that syscall translator, and use ubuntu. WOW! | 16:39 |
| jcastro | I think being able to tell old-jrwren style folks "just go to the windows store and install ubuntu" is like ... !!!!! | 16:48 |
| jrwren | +1 | 16:49 |
| jrwren | me from five years ago would have !!!!! and I know a lot of mes from five years ago are still out there. | 16:49 |
| jcastro | yeah | 16:49 |
| jrwren | Still using Visual Studio, and still doing weird things to get cmdline tools on windows | 16:49 |
| jcastro | a star trek plot involving you going back in time to tell yourself this seems more realistic than this announcement, heh | 16:50 |
| jrwren | hahaha! true! | 16:50 |
| cmaloney | http://openmetalcast.com/2016/03/30/open-metalcast-episode-126-good-looking-music/ | 18:04 |
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