[kwlug-disc] Techcrunch: Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell to Windows 10 [was: Linuxaria: Open Source Has Taken over the Software Industry]

[Colin Mackay]

New Windows joke?

sudo rm -rf /

:)

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Steve Izma <sizma at golden.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:58:38PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Techcrunch: Microsoft is bringing the Bash
> shell
> >  to Windows 10 [was: Linuxaria: Open Source Has Taken over the Software
> >  Industry]
> >
> > I would imagine a lot of these errors coming up:
> >
> > sed: command not found
> > awk: command not found
> > tr: command not found
> > ....etc
> > The ecosystem is much more than just the shell itself.
>
> Some deja vu all over again, here. The MKS Toolkit for DOS solved
> the above problems circa 1986, and the solution was still there
> when Windows became common a few years later.
>
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