Linux on Windows 10: Will penguin treats in Creators Update be enough to lure you?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/27/linux_on_windows_10_creators_update/?mt=1488310078157
Ubuntu on Win 10 more useful… but does Microsoft really love Linux
Linux on Windows 10: a GUI desktop is possible though still not official
27 Feb 2017 at 11:28, Tim Anderson
The Windows 10 Creators Update is set for release shortly, and comes with significant improvements to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, also known as Bash on Windows or Ubuntu on Windows.
Just to remind you, this is not done via emulation, nor by running a virtual machine, but rather by redirecting system calls.
Does Microsoft really love Linux? While that is hard to answer definitively, the company does see a lot of Linux in its future, and is smart enough not to resist it.
Around a third of VMs on Azure run Linux; SQL Server for Linux is coming; the next-generation .NET platform (.NET Core) runs on Linux; Visual C++ can target Linux in Visual Studio 2017 (to be released shortly); and via Xamarin you can compile mobile applications for Linux-based Android, to mention a few examples of how Linux has now permeated Microsoft’s platform.
What’s the point of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)? Microsoft mainly has developers in mind. If you are developing for web or mobile platforms, Windows gets in the way, with annoyances like MAX_PATH (a 260 character limit on path length that messes up tools like Java and Node.js), a different character used as the path separator, and the simple fact that most open source tools are compiled for Linux first with a Windows port as an afterthought or not at all. Life is easier on Macs, since OS X is UNIX-based.
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