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Microsoft Store Gets Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora Linux

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday May 14 2017, @03:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the sounds-reasonable dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Microsoft just announced that three different versions of the free Linux operating system — Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora — are coming to the Windows Store, the app market in Windows 10. 

It sounds weird, but it makes perfect sense. In early 2016, Microsoft announced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a way for developers to use full versions of Linux within Windows 10 itself.

Putting aside the historical ramifications here — Microsoft spent the 90s unsuccessfully trying to stamp out Linux, a free alternative to Windows — it was a move intended to bait programmers into using Windows 10.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-store-gets-ubuntu-suse-fedora-linux-2017-5

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday May 14 2017, @08:25PM (4 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday May 14 2017, @08:25PM (#509600) Journal

    And THAT is cemented to the floor. Why the hell isn't this ringing massive alarm bells with this site's entire audience?! MS never, but *never,* does anything with other projects unless it can subsume, poison, or cripple them. This is embrace extend extinguish and the systemd folks are playing right into their hands. Looks like I may need to go to BSD soon...

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday May 14 2017, @08:33PM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday May 14 2017, @08:33PM (#509603) Journal

    There are so many alarm bells ringing already, that may be why.

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  • (Score: 1) by corey on Sunday May 14 2017, @11:12PM

    by corey (2202) on Sunday May 14 2017, @11:12PM (#509635)

    Now they just need to get the secureboot thing really working so that the only way yo run Linux is inside win 10. EEE.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @02:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @02:16AM (#509696)

    Why the hell isn't this ringing massive alarm bells with this site's entire audience?!

    It seems to me like it is. I haven't seen a single positive comment, only "EEE", telemetry, what-could-go-wrong, etc.

    Looks like I may need to go to BSD soon...

    At least "Windows Subsystem for BSD" is unlikely to happen, since it looks too much like "Windows Subsystem for BSoD", aka Windows 95 :)

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday May 15 2017, @09:35AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday May 15 2017, @09:35AM (#509894) Journal

    Why the hell isn't this ringing massive alarm bells with this site's entire audience?!

    Because nobody would hear those additional alarm bells anyway among those many that are already ringing.

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