Any word on how it works with hardware ? Eg. plugging in a usb flash disk, printer, phone etc and then looking at the output of lsusb . Is it as though you were running linux kernel on the machineor does it behave like a VM.

Samahani, I'm just curious, I wish I had a Windows 10 machine I wouldnt be asking all this :-)

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On 11 April 2016 at 20:03, Odhiambo Washington via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Copied.

On 11 April 2016 at 19:57, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
They say it's still "alpha" software, so expect missing stuff, and
instability. And they also say they're targeting it at developers (as
opposed to for deployment), so that should give you an idea of where
they plan to go, at least in the beginning.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am testing out already to see...
>
> Looks like a mini Ubuntu for sure.. apt* tools available... enough
> stuff...df -h doesn't work
>
>
>
>
> On 8 April 2016 at 14:36, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I haven't personally used it, but it looks like you'll basically get a
>> "mini" Ubuntu inside of Windows, including the ability to install
>> Ubuntu packages using APT. Some stuff won't work, including GUI and
>> low-level programs [1] [2].
>>
>> It's made possible by the Windows Subsystem for Linux [3] compatibility
>> layer.
>>
>> [1]
>> <https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/>
>> [2] <http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html>
>> [3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Odhiambo Washington via skunkworks
>> <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
>> > I am looking for use case scenarios for Ubunu's bash shell on Windows
>> > 10.
>> >
>> > I could be missing something, but just having the bash shell on Windows
>> > does
>> > very little to me (in my mind so far). I need tools to manipulate files.
>> > I
>> > also hope it can help me do away with (partly) putty/shellguard for SSH
>> > sessions to remote servers.
>> >
>> > Anyway, lemme update and see what's in store.
>> >
>> > --
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