BASH on Windows 10 ... and maybe FOG also?

[Wayne Workman]

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the-ubuntu-userspace-for-windows-developers/?_ga=1.220703967.678877902.1458259756

Could this potentially mean running FOG on a windows server? hmm…

[george1421]

@Wayne-Workman I think other than the fog installer, and postdownload scripts, FOG doesn’t use the bash shell (on the server side).

If someone had the motivation one could take a WAMP setup on Windows, CygWin, plus a few posix utilities from the Windows resource CD. One could make a Windows based FOG server.

The other issue is the FOS client OS. The bash shell would help there because the scripts as mostly bash from what I saw.

But again would it be really worth the effort. Now you would burn a windows server license for each fog server. The windows server would also have a higher system requirement than a linux equivalent as well as all of the windows vulnerabilities and patch management cycles.

Maybe its just my distorted view, but I’m not seeing FOG on Windows as a win.

[Wayne Workman]

From what I understand, Ubuntu binaries can run on Windows 10 as is, no recompiling or anything (and no hyper-visor, no emulator, no containers, 100% native support) … It could be possible to run the Apache service (and others) as a linux binary…

This is what Microsoft’s aim was, to bring the whole-damn open source world to Windows 10 (to save Windows and bring real talent to it).

[ch3i]

@Wayne-Workman Hi Wayne, FOG 2.0 will come with cross platform support, no ?

[Wayne Workman]

@ch3i said in BASH on Windows 10 … and maybe FOG also?:

@Wayne-Workman Hi Wayne, FOG 2.0 will come with cross platform support, no ?

From what I understand, yes. But we might not have to wait for 2.0… I personally don’t have an interest in running FOG on Windows - but I want to know if it’s possible or not, at this point it’s just a curiosity.

[adukes40]

We are a windows shop, so FOG on windows is of interest. Is there any notes on 2.0 for S and G’s

[george1421]

@adukes40 FOG 2.0 is still a bit of vapor ware. But the developers are rewriting the entire platform using node.js. Node.js is totally portable between different platforms. So the FOG server itself should run on any platform that supports node.js. The only issue I can see is the FOS client (the OS that boots on the target computer) will probably still remain linux. But for you, you’ll probably not care.

[Sebastian Roth]

@george1421 said:

The only issue I can see is the FOS client (the OS that boots on the target computer) will probably still remain linux.

FOS running on bare metal really - meaning that it does not care if windows/linux/mac is installed on disk but depends on Linux running on that particular hardware platform. So x86 based PCs should always work, as well do Intel Macs (confirmed in my own lab!!)…

[Wayne Workman]

@Sebastian-Roth said in BASH on Windows 10 … and maybe FOG also?:

as well do Intel Macs (confirmed in my own lab!!)…

Any news on that subject? My organization has thousands of Macs. Is it easier now?