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Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10
Hanselman.com ^
| 3/30/2016
| Scott Hanselman
Posted on 03/30/2016 2:30:19 PM PDT by Scutter
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To: Scutter
Well, his bash prompt says “root@localhost” so you decide.
Probably not full windows privileges, but root? Why not user he’s logged in as??
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posted on
03/30/2016 6:26:39 PM PDT
by
freedomcrusader
(Proudly wearing the politically incorrect label "crusader" since 1/29/2001)
To: Scutter
I’m dating myself, but does anyone here remember the MKS toolkit with the Korn shell for DOS and Windows platforms? It also had a full set of UNIX command line utilities.
BASH - ie the Born Again Shell is a mash of the sh, csh, tcsh, and Korn shells with command line editing in either emacs or vi mode. Good stuff. “set -o vi”. I’m waiting for someone to bring back the AT&T windowing Korn shell. Now that was sweet.
Maybe we could call it WaBash.
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posted on
03/30/2016 6:30:18 PM PDT
by
lurked_for_a_decade
(Imagination is more important than knowledge!)
To: akalinin
It's not really all that different from bash, but paired with some good themes and plugins from
Oh My Zsh! it makes the command line feel better to me. Little things like better tab completion, triple-dot popping up two directories at a time, cool git shortcuts, etc. Everything I knew in bash still works, so it feels like another iteration: Bourne, Bourne Again, Z.
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posted on
03/30/2016 7:19:31 PM PDT
by
GunningForTheBuddha
(DC is like a car full of clowns off their meds.)
To: freedomcrusader
Probably an early internal build of the software. I’d wait and see what it looks like at release.
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posted on
04/01/2016 8:31:25 AM PDT
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Scutter
To: lurked_for_a_decade
Yes, I remember that. I also remember Xenix and the first portable computer from Osborne.
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posted on
04/01/2016 8:32:33 AM PDT
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Scutter
To: freedomcrusader
Should also add - it’s very common at Microsoft when doing demos to use a virtual machine with generic credentials. At Microsoft, your userid is also your email address, and it’s not always a good thing to put your email address in a public video :)
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04/01/2016 10:44:13 AM PDT
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Scutter
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