How to Get Started Using WSL in Windows 10
'In this article, we will walk through the process of getting started with WSL on your Windows 10 machine. You must be running the latest version of Windows 10 with Fall Creator Update installed. Then, check which version of Windows 10 is installed on your system by searching on “About” in the search box of the Start menu. You should be running version 1709 or the latest to use WSL. If an older version is installed, you need to download and install the Windows 10 Fall Creator Update (FCU) from this page. Once FCU is installed, go to Update Settings (just search for “updates” in the search box of the Start menu) and install any available updates.' -- source: https://www.linux.com/blog/learn/2018/2/how-get-started-using-wsl-windows-10 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:59:30 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
https://www.linux.com/blog/learn/2018/2/how-get-started-using-wsl-windows-10
Looking back at the previous article <https://www.linux.com/blog/learn/2018/2/windows-subsystem-linux-bridge-between-two-platforms>, I see In the past these developers, especially web developers, who worked on servers running Linux had a few choices: run a Linux distro inside a VM on their Windows 10 machines or use workarounds like Cygwin. Both solutions had limitations and neither was ideal. And yet, it seems the Cygwin people were able to figure out how to get the select()/poll() calls <https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.api.net-functions> working with file handles under Windows, while WSL cannot handle it.
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