From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs on Ubuntu advice Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:28:20 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508135361 20628 195.159.176.226 (16 Oct 2017 06:29:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 06:29:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 Cc: Fabrice Popineau , Emacs developers To: Yuri Khan , "rms@gnu.org" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 16 08:29:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e3ytW-0002td-3u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:28:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59537 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e3ytd-00052L-Dq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 02:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38380) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e3yt4-000525-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 02:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e3yt1-0002Dv-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 02:28:30 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:41784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e3yt1-0002Ax-7g; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 02:28:27 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA37160062; Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id Nf2TLfhcvJCh; Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62DEE160E2A; Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:28:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id ypd7sRIB2bwJ; Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.154.18.85]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 09D04160062; Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:28:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219567 Archived-At: Yuri Khan wrote: > More like GNU/=E2=80=9CWindows Subsystem for Linux=E2=80=9D. Yes, that is a more technically-accurate name. Mike Gerwitz goes into thi= s issue=20 at more length here: Gerwitz M. GNU/kWindows. 2016-04-06. https://mikegerwitz.com/2016/04/GNU-= kWindows where he calls it "GNU/kWindows", a name that is shorter and easier to re= member.=20 I suppose another possibility might be "GNU/WSL", though this relies on p= eople=20 knowing what "WSL" stands for. All these names are more accurate than "Wi= ndows=20 Subsystem for GNU/Linux" would be.