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I would like to know whether besides the following attempt
http://www.debian-interix.net/
to port the entire set of tools which come with the most popular Linux systems to Windows systems with SUA (Subsystem for UNIX-applications) support enabled have been successful and are currently active
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsystem_for_UNIX-based_Applications ).
Thanks.
John Sonderson
Posted 2013-11-23T02:25:44.027
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SUA was dropped for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.
Before that it was available in some form or different name in higher SKUs of Windows and in Windows Server.
Didn't help that MS kept changing what provided Unix support - from MKS Toolkit to Interix (which they bought out). What killed it I think is virtual machines. No longer need POSIX compatibility in the OS to support it on a server as it can instead done in a VM running a variant of Unix.
Brian
Posted 2013-11-23T02:25:44.027
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I deeply regret that Windows 8.1 no longer supports SUA. You're right, it's probably virtual machines that killed it. – John Sonderson – 2013-11-23T14:32:07.340
Can't figure out why there seems to be so little interest about SUA on this group (judging from the fact the sua tag has been used very little). – John Sonderson – 2013-11-23T02:26:40.077
Perhaps it's due to the fact that sales of the Windows OS have dropped in recent years. – John Sonderson – 2013-11-23T02:33:48.657
2Note that Linux is the kernel, which cannot run in SUA (which runs on a POSIX subsystem on the NT kernel, beside the Win32 subsystem). You're more looking for the GNU userland. – Bob – 2013-11-23T06:11:35.037
Yes. Please take note of the fact that in the above post I spoke of tools, hence all the GNU (and other open sourced utilities such as for example apache which is not GNU) applications which come with Linux. Obviously we wouldn't be installing the Linux kernel as part of such a solution. – John Sonderson – 2013-11-23T14:28:52.093