Wednesday, June 25, 2025

A Pleasant Surprise

 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is actually sufficiently Linux to run and install many linux commands such as gcc, make, and ddd.  This is not a port of Unix tools to Windows but apparently genuine Ubuntu Linux.

I battled endlessly trying to get VMWare and Oracle VirtualBox to run linuxCNC on my PC, so that I code stuff in the cool of the house before ftping it to the shop.  

This is sufficient.   I can code and debug in the house.  It would be nice to run linuxCNC for testing operation in the linuxCNC GUi, but this is good enough. 

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