Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com)

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports for ZDNet: According to sources at Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, and Microsoft, you'll soon be able to run Ubuntu on Windows 10. This will be more than just running the Bash shell on Windows 10. After all, thanks to programs such as Cygwin or MSYS utilities, hardcore Unix users have long been able to run the popular Bash command line interface (CLI) on Windows. With this new addition, Ubuntu users will be able to run Ubuntu simultaneously with Windows. This will not be in a virtual machine, but as an integrated part of Windows 10. [...] Microsoft and Canonical will not, however, sources say, be integrating Linux per se into Windows. Instead, Ubuntu will primarily run on a foundation of native Windows libraries. Update: 03/30 16:16 GMT by M : At its developer conference Build 2016, Microsoft on Wednesday confirmed that it is bringing native support for Bash on Windows 10. Scott Hanselman writes: This isn't Bash or Ubuntu running in a VM. This is a real native Bash Linux binary running on Windows itself. It's fast and lightweight and it's the real binaries. This is a genuine Ubuntu image on top of Windows with all the Linux tools I use like awk, sed, grep, vi, etc. It's fast and it's lightweight. The binaries are downloaded by you - using apt-get - just as on Linux, because it is Linux. You can apt-get and download other tools like Ruby, Redis, emacs, and on and on. This is brilliant for developers that use a diverse set of tools like me.

Comments

Re:Does this give me native CLI tools or not

[LichtSpektren]

Your post amazes me.

"The only thing keeping me on my functional, usable system is the fact that it does what I want it to. If the shitty unstable insecure OS also did what I wanted it to, I would drop my functional, usable system in a heartbeat and joyfully embrace the spyware, crashes, trojans, overheating, and broken drivers in a heartbeat."

Re:Ew, no

[jedidiah]

Nope. Windows is crap. Always has been, always will. It's the monopoly product built on the idea of controlling the market rather than having a good product.

People put up with Win/DOS because they think they have to, because they think they can't escape from the monopoly.

Apple is about building a good product. I might not like their definition of "good" but I can appreciate that they are more than just bean counters.

As soon as you try to turn a simple consumer choice into "ideology", then you've just demonstrated how sick and twisted and broken the market is. You shouldn't have to be a zealot to turn away from Cambells, or McDonalds, or Ford.