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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
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @11:23AM
Someone putting systemd into the soup
# ps auxwww |grep -i systemd
anon777 77 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 777 0:00 grep --color=auto -i systemd
#
seems as though the Windows Subsystem for Linux is one of the easier ways to get a modern linux userspace without systemd.
I've never used a Windows desktop in my life, having gone straight from Dos to Linux. I've supported every version since 95 and admined every version since NT4, but never used it on my own desktop machine. Been using Windows 10 with subsystem for linux for quite a few months now and it is 100% usable. I'm thinking Windows 10 is a codeword for windows 1.0, it is the first usable version of Windows. Decent user interface, decent command line userspace, turns out I care less about the kernel then I thought I did (which wasn't much actually, been a long time since I recompiled a kernel).
Linux project is compromised anyway, what difference does it make which sell-out operating system is spying on me? Still prefer Slackware though, for its sane package management policies, i.e. no automatic updates.