[GTALUG] Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 09:00:54PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:35:53PM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
> > On 16-12-23 07:05 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
> > > I just tried "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" (yes, it's real title).  With
> > > this, there are now 4 ways of running Unix tools on Windows.
> > 
> > 5 ways if you include MSYS.
> 
> Is that the same family as Cygwin?

I don't think so.

The MSYS tools tend to behave much more like native windows tools than
cygwin does.  Cygwin seems more like using the new ubuntu on windows
stuff, except that one is actual linux binaries rather than recompiled
for cygwin binaries.

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Len Sorensen