[Info-vax] Taking a break - Open Source on OpenVMS Conference Calls Resume in the FALL of 2022...

seasoned_geek roland at logikalsolutions.com
Sat Jun 18 11:53:43 EDT 2022


On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 10:32:21 AM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 6/17/2022 11:00 AM, Chris Townley wrote: 
> > On 17/06/2022 14:33, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> >> I like Cygwin. I have always had it on my Windows PC's for more 
> >> than 2 decades. I don't use that much of it and I never use 
> >> bash, but I like many of the utilities.
> > Have you looked at Windows Subsystem for Linux as an option?
> My impression is that WSL is more for people developing 
> for Linux on Windows than for for Windows users 
> wanting to use some *nix utilities. 

It's the first cut of Microsoft Windows becoming "just a desktop" on top of Ubuntu ala Gnome, KDE, etc. Canonical and Google are moving to Fuchsia. A whole lot of YABUs will soon go away.



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