#Ubuntu windows 95 emulator update
#Ubuntu windows 95 emulator full

And Ubuntu’s convert utility quickly resized a bunch of icons. And a quick grep | xargs | sed to comprehensively search and replace s/SampleApp/UbuntuOnWindows/.

#Ubuntu windows 95 emulator update

I used find | xargs | rename to update a bunch of filenames. Then I found the sample application directory in /mnt/c/Users/Kirkland/Downloads, and copied it using “ cp -a“. Instead, I pressed the Windows key, typed “ bash“, hit enter. Not being Windows developer, I struggled and fought with Visual Studio on this Windows desktop for a few hours, until I was about ready to smash my coffee mug through the damn screen! That required me to use Microsoft Visual Studio to clone a sample application, edit a few dozen XML files, create a bunch of icon. So as part of the engineering work, I needed to wrap the stock Ubuntu root filesystem into a Windows application package (.appx) file for suitable upload to the Windows Store. Oh, and it’s totally sh*t hot! The sysbench utility is showing nearly equivalent cpu, memory, and io performance. Microsoft calls it their “Windows Subsystem for Linux”. Linux geeks can think of it sort of the inverse of “wine” - Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows. “So maybe something like a Linux emulator?” Now you’re getting warmer! A team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls. Here, we’re talking about bit-for-bit, checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries running directly in Windows. “Hum, well it’s like cygwin perhaps?” Nope! Cygwin includes open source utilities are recompiled from source to run natively in Windows. It’s native Ubuntu binaries running directly in Windows. “Ah, okay, so this is Ubuntu in a container then?” Nope! This isn’t a container either. There’s no Linux kernel booting in a VM under a hypervisor. “Right, so just Ubuntu running in a virtual machine?” Nope! This isn’t a virtual machine at all.

And most of the tens of thousands binary packages available in the Ubuntu archives!.

Yes, that means apt, ssh, rsync, find, grep, awk, sed, sort, xargs, md5sum, gpg, curl, wget, apache, mysql, python, perl, ruby, php, gcc, tar, vim, emacs, diff, patch….

#Ubuntu windows 95 emulator full

With full access to all of Ubuntu user space.

Did you get that?!? Don’t worry, it took me a few laps around that track, before I fully comprehended it when I first heard such crazy talk a few months ago 🙂