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Date:	Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:22:00 +0300
From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, Evgeny Grin!

> With latest Window Insider preview it's possible to run Linux command
> from cmd, Windows commands from bash and even use input-output redirects!
> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/10/19/windows-and-ubuntu-interoperability/
> Seems that WSL also automatically translate \r\n<->\n.

Which will break a lot of tools not expecting this kind oh "help".

> There still no (official) way to run GUI with WSL.

> Is Cygwin still better for something?

Did they fixed the user mappings?

> I understand that WSL and Cygwin are completely different approaches,
> but from user perspective both are kind of sets of GNU/Linux commands
> and both are using some intermediate layer (cygwin1.dll or LXSS).

WSL requires Windows 10. End of story.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, October 27, 2016 16:20:53

Sorry for my terrible english...


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