Given historic context it would be easy to dismiss Microsoft Windows as a legitimate development environment. Now, if everything went as expected, we should be able to run gvim and see the application open. This will be the Xming server running on Windows. The final step before being able to run the Linux application is to tell WSL what display to send the video data to.
#MAKING GX WORKS 2 RUN ON LINUX INSTALL#
When the Linux terminal is available let's install gvim. Start the Windows Subsystem for Linux program. Follow the install directions as they appear from the installer.Ĭheck that out. Next we will want to install Xming on to Windows 10. The Solutionįrom the Windows Store install the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Interoperability has progressed so far that running a Linux GUI program on Windows is now possible. Have you thought about automatically setting the correct feed as you build and release the test images That would make testing more intuitive especially for people testing 3rd party hardware and software add-ons or automation (the first thing we need to do is install packages). This is an amazing leap from ten years ago when when running LAMP stack properly working with IIS was a journey into madness. Thanks, that works and is much cleaner than hacking files. I can even run a container using Docker on Linux wrapped in Windows. Windows Subsystem for Linux has makes this possible very easily. Being able to running Linux programs on Windows is a highly desirable ability given my current role. I am as far from the unified experience as a user could possibly get. The Current SituationĪt home I run Ubuntu 18.04, on the go is a 15" MacBook Pro, my phone is some version of Android, and finally in the office we run on Windows 10 HP notebooks.
Coupled with the recent moves by Microsoft into the free or open source software (FOSS) world Windows is as well making major headway towards being taken seriously in the IT / engineering world. To many users with to many applications on to many systems operate on Windows. As much as I would like to ignore Windows in the tech world, it can not be marginalized.