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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
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday May 14 2017, @08:31PM (2 children)
- WTF? "Linux, a free alternative to Windows"? They mean, "an OS that actually works, unlike the spycrapware Windows"?
- I hate to remind you of this, but... systemd.
- Alright... *goes to weep in a corner*
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(Score: 2) by Refugee from beyond on Sunday May 14 2017, @08:41PM (1 child)
systemd does not spy on you yet. Porbably.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @07:53AM
systemd does not spy on you yet.
I'll believe that when I can disable that binary log file that only Micro^H^H^H^H^H Poettering knows what it really contains.