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Ubuntu Arrives in the Windows Store, Suse and Fedora Are Coming To the Windows Subsystem For Linux (venturebeat.com)
At its Build developer conference today, Microsoft announced that Ubuntu has arrived in the Windows Store. From a report: The company also revealed that it is working with Fedora and Suse to bring their distributions to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10. At the conference last year, Microsoft announced plans to bring the Bash shell to Windows. The fruits of that labor was WSL, a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables (in ELF format) natively on Windows, which arrived with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update released in August 2016. Microsoft also partnered with Canonical to allow Ubuntu tools and utilities to run natively on top of the WSL. By bringing Ubuntu to the Windows Store, the company is now making it even easier for developers to install the tools and run Windows and Linux apps side by side. Working with other Linux firms shows that Microsoft's deal with Canonical was not a one-time affair, but rather part of a long-term investment in the Linux world.
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If you are using Windows, then why would you possibly feign pretend concern about efficiency of RAM and storage?
:-), yes, seriously not joking.
That's like a coal burning power plant expressing concern about pollution caused by someone burning leaves in a barrel.
RAM is cheap. Cheap. I use 32 GB on my workstation at home, and on each of two workstations at work. A local server in my office, for my own use is 64 GB. And production servers can have more. I am a Java developer,
It's just a (small) cost of doing business. Productivity of people is far, far more important than a few gigabytes of ram or terabytes of disk. People focused on pure technical efficiency over business concerns probably don't stay in business. Technical efficiency is great. And something to strive for. But not if it costs you time, every single day, and you can just throw some minor resources at it to save that time every day. If you can make a person 30 minutes more productive every day by giving them a standard configuration of 32 GB, big dual monitors, etc. then it is a huge money saver.
Why run Linux under Windows Subsystem for Linux? Especially when it isn't even real Linux? If you're deploying on Linux, then develop and test on Linux. It's like saying, I'm developing for a formula 1 race car, but what I have in my office is a Windows workstation with a lawnmower engine that has a fake body cover on it to make it look like a formula 1 race car. It won't be any different in production. What could possibly go wrong?
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.