Is anyone here using this for *Nix traditional tools?
Mostly curious about Vim/Tmux, and having serve operations spit out the server into the actual Windows browser?
I did read something about the creator update adding 24 color support.
Mostly curious about Vim/Tmux, and having serve operations spit out the server into the actual Windows browser?
I did read something about the creator update adding 24 color support.
I'm less sure about things that require a GUI, and last time I tried postgres it didn't work. That was a while ago, though, and they might have made progress since. TFA says the postgres tests are passing.
They mention X/GUI support in the "What's new in Bash/WSL" article[1].
> Note: Some of you may also have been following along with some intrepid explorations into running X/GUI apps and desktops on WSL. While we don’t explicitly support X/GUI apps/desktops on WSL, we don’t do anything to block/prevent them from running. So if you manage to get your favorite editor, desktop, browser, etc. running, GREAT but know that we are still focusing all our efforts on delivering a really solid command-line experience, running all the command-line developer tools you need.
[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/04/11/wind...
> having serve operations spit out the server into the actual Windows browser?
I'm unsure exactly what you mean. But you can absolutely run web servers in WSL and connect to them from any browser running on Windows.
In my experience, you can connect to any network services running on Windows from Linux (for example, I connect to the Docker for Windows daemon) and vice versa.