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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: 2) by ilsa on Monday May 15 2017, @09:56PM (1 child)

    by ilsa (6082) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 15 2017, @09:56PM (#510242)

    This can be easily verified with an appropriate router that lets you inspect the data going back and forth.

    People made the same claim about MacOS/OSX/whateverkidscallitthesedays, and someone went ahead and did an actual test. When they disabled Siri, iCloud, error reporting, and all the other cloudy bits, OSX didn't send so much as a single bit back to Apple, or anywhere else for that matter, that the user didn't didn't specifically ask for.

    The Linux ecosystem may not be as iron fisted as Apple, but I'm inclined to believe that such an experiment would have a similar result.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:15PM (#511026)

    disabled Siri, iCloud, error reporting

    um.... yeah these so called features and their alikes on other systems are the trojan horses. this is how your information is getting to the NSA, et. al. automatic updates is how they open and close backdoors in your system. this stuff is obvious to anybody who has been using computers since before the shit soup that passes for an operating system these days

    can we have a a bug duh for the dunces

    thanks