From 00082dc6babf49c2d7c5ba5fb845bd7c238bc8d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Kokot Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 20:59:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Rename WSL When introduced, Windows Subsystem for Linux was available only with Ubuntu image. The next updates offerred more Linux distributions, therefore the naming of this layer is changed to WSL. --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8fceedc..4967eb3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ These items are relevant *only* on Windows. - Access the power of the Unix shell under Microsoft Windows by installing [Cygwin](https://cygwin.com/). Most of the things described in this document will work out of the box. -- On Windows 10, you can use [Bash on Ubuntu on Windows](https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about), which provides a familiar Bash environment with Unix command line utilities. On the plus side, this allows Linux programs to run on Windows. On the other hand this does not support the running of Windows programs from the Bash prompt. +- On Windows 10, you can use [Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)](https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about), which provides a familiar Bash environment with Unix command line utilities. On the plus side, this allows Linux programs to run on Windows. On the other hand this does not support the running of Windows programs from the Bash prompt. - If you mainly want to use GNU developer tools (such as GCC) on Windows, consider [MinGW](http://www.mingw.org/) and its [MSYS](http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys) package, which provides utilities such as bash, gawk, make and grep. MSYS doesn't have all the features compared to Cygwin. MinGW is particularly useful for creating native Windows ports of Unix tools. From 3f6cdcbaa68967c05f9ee1d2646db47bda0fcdab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Kokot Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 23:29:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] WSL now allows running Linux and Windows programs --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4967eb3..0d9896f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ These items are relevant *only* on Windows. - Access the power of the Unix shell under Microsoft Windows by installing [Cygwin](https://cygwin.com/). Most of the things described in this document will work out of the box. -- On Windows 10, you can use [Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)](https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about), which provides a familiar Bash environment with Unix command line utilities. On the plus side, this allows Linux programs to run on Windows. On the other hand this does not support the running of Windows programs from the Bash prompt. +- On Windows 10, you can use [Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)](https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about), which provides a familiar Bash environment with Unix command line utilities. - If you mainly want to use GNU developer tools (such as GCC) on Windows, consider [MinGW](http://www.mingw.org/) and its [MSYS](http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys) package, which provides utilities such as bash, gawk, make and grep. MSYS doesn't have all the features compared to Cygwin. MinGW is particularly useful for creating native Windows ports of Unix tools.