The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Here’s a great quick start guide to getting Jupyter Notebook and Lab up and running with the Miniconda environment in WSL2 running Ubuntu. When you’re finished walking through the steps you’ll have a great data science space up and running on your Windows machine.
I am going to explain how to configure Windows 10 and Miniconda to work with Notebooks using WSL2
Learn how to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to make your coding environment more effective. WSL provides a new way to develop PHP applications on Windows while using native Linux binaries and tooling. This book gets you started installing Ubuntu as a WSL distribution with PHP, NGINX, and MySQL. You’ll also enhance your…
Source: PHP Development with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | php[architect]
The Windows Subsystem for Linux can invoke native Windows binaries and be invoked from a Windows command line. This feature is available to Windows 10 users running Anniversary Update build 14951. This new interoperability functionality delivers a seamless experience between Windows and WSL. Technical details on how this interoperability works can be found on the WSL blog.
Source: Windows Interoperability | MSDN
This is pretty cool. From either command prompt (CMD) or PowerShell you can use the syntax bash -c “ls -la” to invoke basic Linux commands without launching the Ubuntu environment. More advanced tools like curl are also available.
The article indicates the reverse is also true but I wasn’t able to get Windows binaries running from the bash window. I don’t know if it’s a bug or something about my configuration.
Windows Subsystem for Linux Frequently Asked Questions | MSDN https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/faq
