[url]http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-canonical-partner-to-bring-ubuntu-to-windows-10/[/url]
[QUOTE]According to sources at Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, and Microsoft, you'll soon be able to run Ubuntu on Windows 10.
his 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. [B]This will not be in a virtual machine, but as an integrated part of Windows 10.[/B]
The details won't be revealed until tomorrow's morning keynote speech at Microsoft Build. It is believed that Ubuntu will run on top of Windows 10's recently and quietly introduced Linux subsystems in a new Windows 10 Redstone build.[/QUOTE]
Now that's a headline I would never have expected to see in my lifetime.
That sounds awesome, hope it will work with other distros though, not a fan of Ubuntu.
Can't wait for the day when Ubuntu automatically updates into overwriting your installation with Windows10 + Ubuntu
Uh... Wow.
That's actually going to be a way bigger boon for Linux than anything in the past couple [i]decades.[/i]
[QUOTE=VinLAURiA;50032739]Uh... Wow.
That's actually going to be a way bigger boon for Linux than anything in the past couple [i]decades.[/i][/QUOTE]
Well linux forms the backbone for a lot of consumer electronics etc so not sure about that. Still huge news tho.
Sounds awesome, at least. Wonder what the true scope of this is.
EDIT:
What I'm getting from this is that it's an integration of developer environments, not end user environments?
[QUOTE=Occlusion;50032743]Well linux forms the backbone for a lot of consumer electronics etc so not sure about that. Still huge news tho.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but in a desktop experience? The whole "SteamOS will increase the Linux install-base and get more game developers interested in it" schpiel died out pretty quick, but something like this actually [i]might.[/i]
Didn't see that coming. Such a pity that win 10 sucks in it's current state.
Sounds sick. I've been running Ubuntu in a VM for the past 4 years on my laptop for whenever I needed it. Being able to ditch that with a better user experience is honestly great for everyone.
[QUOTE=GayIlluminati;50032767]Such a pity that win 10 sucks in it's current state.[/QUOTE]
Can you elaborate? Switching from 8 to 10 was a great decision I made.
Please role this into the next version of Windows server so I can have a competent CLI for a headless server AND be able to utilize Windows applications.
this idea didn't even cross my mind. i considered trying out ubuntu at one point or another but a win10+ubuntu would be absolutely perfect.
Is this going to mean I can work with Ubuntu as a programmer? I [I]love[/I] working with Ubuntu, but not being able to use Visual Studio, and other dev tools, is a big big dealbreaker.
[QUOTE=Asgard;50032806]Is this going to mean I can work with Ubuntu as a programmer? I [I]love[/I] working with Ubuntu, but not being able to use Visual Studio, and other dev tools, is a big big dealbreaker.[/QUOTE]
Exactly this, Ubuntu makes a lot of stuff a breeze which is unnecessarily picky on windows, but lacks the software support of Microsoft, Autodesk and Adobe. Being able to use those with Ubuntu properly and fluidly is an absolute godsend.
[QUOTE=icemaz;50032823]Exactly this, Ubuntu makes a lot of stuff a breeze which is unnecessarily picky on windows, but lacks the software support of Microsoft, Autodesk and Adobe. Being able to use those with Ubuntu properly and fluidly is an absolute godsend.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit yes, it'd be the mashup of my dreams
I must be in a coma
[QUOTE=VinLAURiA;50032739]Uh... Wow.
That's actually going to be a way bigger boon for Linux than anything in the past couple [i]decades.[/i][/QUOTE]
Friendly reminder that Android is really just a Linux distro
[QUOTE=Darkwater124;50032826]Friendly reminder that Android is really just a Linux distro[/QUOTE]
Friendly reminder that no doy.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50032830]I still think I'm in a dream.
Am I wrong to think that most of us feel like this is just a delusion and this ain't real?[/QUOTE]
I mean I think between microsoft and canonical there's a lot of room for it to go wrong but I'm cautiously optimistic.
I hope this will also make dualbooting W10 and any Linux distro a viable choice again. At the moment it's a huge hastle.
[QUOTE=Number-41;50032857]I hope this will also make dualbooting W10 and any Linux distro a viable choice again. At the moment it's a huge hastle.[/QUOTE]
How so, Grub UEFI is some pretty sweet stuff atm
Ubuntu already needs you to restart after every accursed update, so I think the relationship will get along just fine.
I'm honestly worried. Not about the 2 companies per se, but about the ubuntu community's reaction.
The last time a major linux distro and microsoft got this friendly, the distro's community completely [I]evaporated [B]overnight.[/B][/I] Suse Linux died literally within a week of the announcement their parent company made.
[editline]30th March 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Samiam22;50032896]Ubuntu already needs you to restart after every accursed update, so I think the relationship will get along just fine.[/QUOTE]
Since when? I only have to reboot after kernel updates.
[QUOTE=Samiam22;50032896]Ubuntu already needs you to restart after every accursed update, so I think the relationship will get along just fine.[/QUOTE]
What?
The pretty much the only Updates within Ubuntu that require a full restart are Updates for the Kernel and glibc. Don't know if Upstart requires one aswell. Pretty much everything else shouldn't require a complete restart (Stuff like Xorg or video drivers should only require the Xorg session to be restarted).
I hope this means I can properly access linux partitions under windows.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;50032984]I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't that be against the GPL? unless MS allows people to break their drm legally.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;50032984]I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows.[/QUOTE]
I still prefer NSA plus Windows
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