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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/18/2022 11:53 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> 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.

Nonsense.

WSL 1 is the exact opposite - Linux userland on top of Windows kernel.
And WSL 2 is just a VM with Linux.

> Canonical and Google are moving to Fuchsia.

Google has not said that Android will replace
Linux with Fuchsia.

There are just a lot of rumors going around.
Time will tell.

They could probably do it. If Android SDK,
Android NDK and Play Services are available, then
practically everything should work identical whether
it is Linux or Fuchsia below.

Arne