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Ubuntu Linux Is Now Available for Download from the Microsoft Windows Store
Dubbed Ubuntu on Windows, this special Ubuntu build allows users to use various command-line utilities like GNU Bash, the Git distributed version control system, both APT and DPKG CLI package managers, and SSH (Secure Shell) to test their software applications, install other tools, etc. |
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Comments (3)
The way I see it is that we are still in the "embrace" stage. It won't be long and the Windosers will start to see promises of "enhancements" in the Microsoft-Linux "layer".
If Microsoft did a good enough job of hiding it they'd never realize it.
> It won't be long and the Windosers will start to see promises of "enhancements" in the Microsoft-Linux "layer".
That's a safe bet. The last I heard the Linux layer ran with as root.
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windows is what comes with your computer, and linux, or anything else is what gets installed on top of it. pretty soon we'll see servers running linux, where linux is actually running on top of windows.
like azure is microsofts platform to run linux virtual machines, windows will become the base operating system to run linux servers on hardware.
microsoft is turning into the platform layer, and linux will be the application layer.
how long will it take before people realize that this windows platform layer is completely redundant?
:-(
greetings, eMBee.