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Bash is coming to Windows

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Just anounced at Build!

More details would have been nice ... looks like this is real though:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-show-bash-on-linux...

Screenshots: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/be-very-afraid-hell-has-fro...

The title bar shows bash.exe. So probably not a Linux binary executable, but a Windows port, like Cygwin or msys?

EDIT: Here's another source that claims they are unmodified Linux ELF binaries: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.htm...

Hanselman has a post about it: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUs...

I wonder if it's one of the newer GPLv3 Bash releases, or an older GPLv2 Bash release. The Bash version on OS X is quite outdated due to Apple's avoidance of GPLv3 software.

I wondered if it will provider better/native support for fork? It will be great if this is the case, since the fork implemented by Cygiwn is somewhat slow.

Probably a huge "hope" but it would be cool to see Microsoft move towards releasing some sort of windows/linux hybrid O.S. to rival ubuntu that could run linux and windows software. -- Perhaps make it foss but have some sort of premium app store with fee/split for devs like Apple to pay the bills instead to get it out there.. -- that could make me go back to Microsoft from ubuntu (as I abhor using WINE, so just don't use MS software - but I'm a developer and linux just works better for me.. ).

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388418

Is this announcement related to cmder.net? If so, yeah ... cool. Having this tool since months now. Works.

2 days early?

Lol, KSH was announced to be running on windows a long time ago. And it was a scam (according to Mr Korn)

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KornShellStory

Let's wait to see if it has all the horrible features making it a security hole.

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