native Linux userland in Windows 10

Alexey Sokolov alexey+cygwin@asokolov.org
Thu Apr 14 15:08:00 GMT 2016


14.04.2016 15:49, Warren Young пишет:
> The fact that it has limitations merely means it isn’t going to wipe Cygwin off the map immediately.  When/if Microsoft fixes all the limitations w.r.t. Cygwin, Cygwin is in deep yogurt.

Cygwin also works on older versions of Windows. My guess is that
Microsoft probably won't backport Linux support to e.g. Windows 7.

Unrelated: If they just implement Linux kernel interface, I don't see
why other distros can't work.

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