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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 opinionated_science on Monday May 15 2017, @02:26AM (1 child)
I would be interested too - this looks like naked "embrace, extend, extinguish".
(Score: 2) by Rich on Monday May 15 2017, @02:54AM
One thing to remember is that with the branded Linuxes, trademark issues come into play. Hence the weird names of the RHEL spinoffs. Both sides have to play ball. SuSE, via Novell, has been in bed with MS before to the point that this fuckup is immortalized in the GPL3 (though I've never fully understood why the FSF put in that cutoff date), I suspect they get along very well with Red Hat these days, and maybe they cut Shuttleworth some kind of deal for his planned IPO. Also notice that Debian and Mint, preferred choices of Admins and Desktop Nerds are absent from the list.