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Christopher Fuhrman-2

Running Pharo under Ubuntu (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Thanks to Cyril who told me it was possible, I got Pharo 7 Unix running under the Ubuntu 18 that's part of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10. It's not a VM VirtualBox.

I documented the install steps on my new blog that uses Jekyll and github pages, which actually took longer to set up than the Pharo under WSL :)

The Mesa install step on the blog might be useful for documenting how to get Pharo 7 to work in Ubuntu 18?

https://fuhrmanator.github.io/Pharo-in-WSL/

Ben Coman

Re: Running Pharo under Ubuntu (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Super Cool !!!

cheers -ben

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 16:53, Christopher Fuhrman <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thanks to Cyril who told me it was possible, I got Pharo 7 Unix running under the Ubuntu 18 that's part of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10. It's not a VM VirtualBox.

I documented the install steps on my new blog that uses Jekyll and github pages, which actually took longer to set up than the Pharo under WSL :)

The Mesa install step on the blog might be useful for documenting how to get Pharo 7 to work in Ubuntu 18?

https://fuhrmanator.github.io/Pharo-in-WSL/

Esteban A. Maringolo

Re: Running Pharo under Ubuntu (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

In reply to this post by Christopher Fuhrman-2

This is great, do you notice any performance impact?

I had to install a lubuntu VM as a workaround to the existing Iceberg
"long file paths" issues.

Regards,

Esteban A. Maringolo

El jue., 28 feb. 2019 a las 5:53, Christopher Fuhrman
(<[hidden email]>) escribió:
>
> Thanks to Cyril who told me it was possible, I got Pharo 7 Unix running under the Ubuntu 18 that's part of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10. It's not a VM VirtualBox.
>
> I documented the install steps on my new blog that uses Jekyll and github pages, which actually took longer to set up than the Pharo under WSL :)
>
> The Mesa install step on the blog might be useful for documenting how to get Pharo 7 to work in Ubuntu 18?
>
> https://fuhrmanator.github.io/Pharo-in-WSL/

Christopher Fuhrman-2

Re: Running Pharo under Ubuntu (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 18:20 Esteban Maringolo <[hidden email]> wrote:

This is great, do you notice any performance impact?

I didn't do any formal benchmark. The XWindows display is noticeably laggy when you drag windows in Pharo, but I didn't find it annoying. The baseline installs I did were not noticeably slower than what I'm used to. I did some testing and debugging for several hours and I forgot I was running XSL, except for the keyboard. I haven't figured out why my quotes and apostrophes and tildes are not right. I think I had that problem in a lubuntu VM under Windows 10, too.

I had to install a lubuntu VM as a workaround to the existing Iceberg
"long file paths" issues.

Maybe the WSL method will be a useful alternative.

Regards,

Esteban A. Maringolo

El jue., 28 feb. 2019 a las 5:53, Christopher Fuhrman
(<[hidden email]>) escribió:
>
> Thanks to Cyril who told me it was possible, I got Pharo 7 Unix running under the Ubuntu 18 that's part of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10. It's not a VM VirtualBox.
>
> I documented the install steps on my new blog that uses Jekyll and github pages, which actually took longer to set up than the Pharo under WSL :)
>
> The Mesa install step on the blog might be useful for documenting how to get Pharo 7 to work in Ubuntu 18?
>
> https://fuhrmanator.github.io/Pharo-in-WSL/