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Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin?
- From: Evgeny Grin <k2k at yandex dot ru>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:21:07 +0300
- Subject: Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin?
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With latest Window Insider preview it's possible to run Linux command
from cmd, Windows commands from bash and even use input-output redirects!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/10/19/windows-and-ubuntu-interoperability/
Seems that WSL also automatically translate \r\n<->\n.
There still no (official) way to run GUI with WSL.
Is Cygwin still better for something?
I understand that WSL and Cygwin are completely different approaches,
but from user perspective both are kind of sets of GNU/Linux commands
and both are using some intermediate layer (cygwin1.dll or LXSS).
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Best Wishes,
Evgeny Grin
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