Maybe GeNToo can come true ;)

fpemud · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2012 Posts: 352

Ubuntu's User-Space Ported To Run On Windows 10 By Canonical/Microsoft:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-User-Space-On-Win10

GeNToo - Gentoo on the NT kernel:
http://www.gentooexperimental.org/nt/

khayyam · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 8:07 am Post subject: Re: Maybe GeNToo can come true ;)

Naib · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 8:58 am Post subject:

I /really/ hate April 1st...
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vilehost · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2016 Posts: 26

canonical =

microsoft = :evil:

canonical + microsoft ?

= spare me.

khayyam · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 7:40 pm Post subject:

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

I absolutely HATE canonical for what they did to smspillaz and compiz-fusion, not to mention the plethera of other shady things they do on a daily basis
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xaviermiller · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 6:46 am Post subject:

A revival of Cooperative Linux?
(and don't forget jslinux too

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khayyam · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:23 pm Post subject:

all ...

We can look at it this way: canonical found a way out of the systemd lock-in, why use a cheap imitation when you can use the true, and original, implementation. ;)

best ... khay

P.Kosunen · Guru Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 309 Location: Finland

So, they are attacking from multiple fronts to rot linux from inside, systemd was just first step.

truekaiser · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Posts: 810

I will laugh out of my chair if they have to have systemD running on windows 10 to do this.

On the other paw, if they don't and this allows me to mount nfs shares between my only windows machines(a gaming one that plays games with no or buggy linux ports, And a transformer tablet) and all my other linux machines I may check it out...

axl · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1146 Location: Romania

I don't think it was an april's fool joke.

As far as I can work out, it's a syscall translator. An emulator. Like wine. But instead of running win code, it runs elf code. both 32/64 bits.

And since it's running gcc and the binaries that gcc is making, then it should run any elf binary. Which includes gentoo.

It should come in handy if you are locked inside a Windows machine, but it will only run console apps for now. And NOT all syscalls are translated yet. M$ will rely heavily on our reports to improve their product.

pilla · Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 10:55 pm Post subject:

I installed it in one desktop (had to move to Windows 10 preview for that).

Right now it seems to be mostly useless. Even /dev/null is not a character device and thus stuff such as sshd get really pissed off.
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mir3x · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2012 Posts: 455

I installed ubuntu subsytem bc i wanted to chroot to my real gentoo and keep emerging.
But mounting linux parition is not possible so screw that, maybe for some computation it might be good
(I've read it has about 100% original linux speed).
It could be still useful for fast compiling instead using slow as hell msys or msys2 on windows.
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