Re: [PLUG] POSSIBLE TALK

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 17:35 Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> wrote:

That's what I was using it for too. There are some things I like
better in cygwin, especially with drive mapping. But SFL uses apt so if
you use debian or ubuntu it will feel pretty natural to you.

Walt

Actually.....

To be excessively pedantic, SFL doesn’t. The default distro packaged with early versions of SFL was Ubuntu, but SFL itself is just a kernel-to-kernel shim and a POSIX translation layer. Even first party, in the Windows Store, there are Ubuntu, Debian 9, and SLES and OpenSuSE packages. If you don’t mind sourcing your own rootfs, you can run any distro you’d like, I’m generally running Arch most of the time in mine. I find the rolling distro thing works hand in hand with Windows features that are under heavy development.

Also, Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1710) and previous had some gotchas about updates, in partcular bash and glibc tended to trigger a threading logic error, but Windows 10 1803 update that just came out addressed that and the last few other bugs I knew of in SFL. If you have to run Windows, at least you can have your tools handy.

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