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SUA Deprecated In Windows 8?

Posted by timothy on from the how-does-being-assimilated-feel dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I just tried to install Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) on Windows 8 Preview and found that it's marked as DEPRECATED: 'Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) is a source-compatibility subsystem for compiling and running custom UNIX-based applications and scripts on a computer running Windows operating system. WARNING: SUA is deprecated starting with this release and will be completely removed in the next release. You should begin planning now to employ alternate methods for any applications, code, or usage that depend on this feature.'"

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  1. Cygwin by paugq · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would someone use SUA, which is only contains very old versions of the software it bundles? There is Cygwin, which is a much much better alternative. Sometimes, even MinGW is a valid alternative because it generates a native application (though it requires some porting effort, which may be unacceptable in many cases).

  2. Re:I feel like... by j-pimp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or maybe no one is using it, and its not worth the support headaches. As others have, and will continue to suggest throughout the comments in this article, cygwin, mingwsys, UnxUtils or even a full blown unix VM are fine substitutes for SUA. Now, if you are actually using SUA in production, and this negatively effects you, that would be interesting to hear about.

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  3. This is by malevolentjelly · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you look at the kind of work Microsoft has put into the Linux kernel recently relating to Hyper-V...

    https://lwn.net/Articles/451243/

    One might gather that it's not worth the trouble for NT to ape Unix anymore. Chances are pretty good Linux is the new SUA and virtualization will be the new supported solution to this problem. I mean, why should Microsoft bother maintaining its own Unix tools when they're actively maintained elsewhere? Given the work they've done on both virtualization and linux integration I would say that there's no great conspiracy here.