Once I joked that the next version of Windows would have a Linux kernel. This seems to be going that way,
even if through tortuous ways. Does it mean we could just run X instead of the Windows UX (UX is probably not
quite the word for it)?
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Dr Victor Lazzarini
Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy,
Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
Tel: 00 353 7086936
Fax: 00 353 1 7086952 

> On 31 Mar 2016, at 10:45, Stephen Kyne  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Not sure if anyone has been following Microsoft's BUILD 2016 event that's on but there has been some big announcements. Namely that Microsoft and Canonical (Ubuntu) have been working together to bring a Linux version that works natively in Windows. Sounds strange I know!
> 
> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html?m=1
> 
> This will allow bash to work and Windows will be able to run native Ubuntu ELF files. According to the article above, the performance is near identical to Ubuntu, there is only a thin conversion layer. I'd imagine applications that aren't using many sys calls would be 1:1 though.
> 
> So it seems like you can use apt-get to install packages such as Csound and they'll work out the box. Sounds amazing really! 
> 
> There is a developer preview out before summer and I think the official release is during the summer at some period.
> With Microsoft offering free updates to Windows 10 from 7 and 8, and XP not really supported any more. I'd imagine most Windows users will be on 10 relatively soon.
> 
> Possibly a big maintenance gain for cross platform Csound? I'd imagine the Visual Studio integration will improve a lot more too. Clang is already integrated so far.
> 

Am I right in suspecting that we still will need to go through windows
drivers for the audio hardware?

2016-03-31 11:51 GMT+02:00 Victor Lazzarini :
> Once I joked that the next version of Windows would have a Linux kernel. This seems to be going that way,
> even if through tortuous ways. Does it mean we could just run X instead of the Windows UX (UX is probably not
> quite the word for it)?
> ========================
> Dr Victor Lazzarini
> Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy,
> Maynooth University,
> Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
> Tel: 00 353 7086936
> Fax: 00 353 1 7086952
>
>> On 31 Mar 2016, at 10:45, Stephen Kyne  wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Not sure if anyone has been following Microsoft's BUILD 2016 event that's on but there has been some big announcements. Namely that Microsoft and Canonical (Ubuntu) have been working together to bring a Linux version that works natively in Windows. Sounds strange I know!
>>
>> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html?m=1
>>
>> This will allow bash to work and Windows will be able to run native Ubuntu ELF files. According to the article above, the performance is near identical to Ubuntu, there is only a thin conversion layer. I'd imagine applications that aren't using many sys calls would be 1:1 though.
>>
>> So it seems like you can use apt-get to install packages such as Csound and they'll work out the box. Sounds amazing really!
>>
>> There is a developer preview out before summer and I think the official release is during the summer at some period.
>> With Microsoft offering free updates to Windows 10 from 7 and 8, and XP not really supported any more. I'd imagine most Windows users will be on 10 relatively soon.
>>
>> Possibly a big maintenance gain for cross platform Csound? I'd imagine the Visual Studio integration will improve a lot more too. Clang is already integrated so far.
>>
>> Stephen



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