[GTALUG] ​Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 | ZDNet

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: James Knott <james.knott at rogers.com>

| Lessee now...  If I run Windows in a virtual machine, as I do now, then
| I'd have Linux running on Windows running on Linux.  I guess 2 out of 3
| ain't bad!  :-)
| 
| http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-canonical-partner-to-bring-ubuntu-to-windows-10/?tag=nl.e539&s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61

A slightly more informative article from the same source:
<http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-not-linux-on-windows-how-it-works/>

Interesting.  I don't think that an X application will run.  No Linux
desktop.  Even programs like screen don't work, but that may be easy
to fix.

It isn't clear how useful this can be.

If you really want linux on Windows, I would guess virtualbox or the
like would do a better job.

If you want command-line tools to muck within the Windows environment,
cygwin probably does the job as well.  Both would have a translation
layer, at least for pathnames.  And PowerShell ought to be a better
choice.  It won't have an impedance mismatch with Windows.  The design
of PowerShell (Monad) looked good to me when it came out (but I have
never tried it).