Forget Ubuntu, now OpenSuse Linux comes to Windows 10
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@aidan_walsh said in Forget Ubuntu, now OpenSuse Linux comes to Windows 10:
@Kelly @aaronstuder In my head this is something I would expect to see more in a server environment, where a Linux application could be deployed on a Windows server in a more traditional "Role" than the overhead of deploying a full VM for the service.
That's what we thought the goal was of their Ubuntu port, but it turns out that they went through a ton of effort to make sure that that would never happen. The old SFU system actually allowed for that. So in that regard, Windows is moving backwards.
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@aidan_walsh said in Forget Ubuntu, now OpenSuse Linux comes to Windows 10:
@scottalanmiller Looking at the OpenSUSE blog post they're using the same Windows Subsystem for Linux and replacing the Ubuntu userspace with SUSEs one.
So it is all smoke and mirrors and totally pointless.
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@Kelly said in Forget Ubuntu, now OpenSuse Linux comes to Windows 10:
I wondered if WSL was just containerizing Ubuntu. This blog post seems to confirm that. Now, if Client Hyper-V would just support GPU pass through my life would be complete.
Yes, containerized userspace, which is confusing, because Ubuntu refers to more than the userspace until they use it in this context - which is what makes it pure marketing. Ubuntu is a Linux distro, not just the userspace. Porting the userspace to Windows in a container is useless. We can't do anything useful with it, not really. It's an interesting college project I guess, but in the IT world, it's just a novelty for its own sake.
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@aaronstuder said in Forget Ubuntu, now OpenSuse Linux comes to Windows 10:
Why would I want to do this? I see no point?
There is none in the way that they did it. The way that they promote it, it would be awesome. But they approach that they took makes it a joke.
