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Here's a statement that would have been unimaginable in previous years: Ubuntu has arrived in the Windows Store. As promised back in May, you can now download a flavor of the popular Linux distribution to run inside Windows 10. It won't compare to a conventional Ubuntu installation, as it's sandboxed (it has limited interaction with Windows) and is focused on running command line utilities like bash or SSH. However, it also makes running a form of Linux relatively trivial. You don't have to dual boot, install a virtual machine or otherwise jump through any hoops beyond a download and ticking a checkbox.
Source: Engadget
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by kaszz on Tuesday July 11 2017, @05:54PM (7 children)
Don't fall for this contain, compartmentalize and crush.
Windows 10 is evil - make sure that OS can't benefit from the FOSS ecosystem.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 11 2017, @09:12PM (5 children)
If you're developing for Linux, why would you want to do your development and testing on the Windows Kernel running a "linux personality" that can run Linux user space binaries. Why not develop and test on the genuine Linux kernel that your production system will be running on?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Tuesday July 11 2017, @09:37PM (3 children)
Most likely because some boss or IT-department insists on Microsoft infestation everywhere.. because policy.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday July 11 2017, @09:53PM (2 children)
Here is a more likely scenario. Microsoft will subtly break something such that your system breaks when run on genuine Linux. In a panic, the boss will ask, "Can't we use Windows on the production servers?"
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday July 11 2017, @10:41PM (1 child)
That IS a good point. Any ideas on counteraction?
Compliance library that test the system before going ahead? "This system is borked, all problems are your own".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday July 12 2017, @12:55PM
Counteraction? Cut Microsoft out completely.
Your development and testing system should be as close as possible to the actual production system. If you tested this drug in mice, then it is obviously safe for use in humans.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Tuesday July 11 2017, @09:41PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @02:02AM
I see it as Windows used (not users) now have an officially sanctioned pathway to upgrade their systems. And having once tasted Ubuntu, they may yeah even (oh horror), discover other distros that are even better.
Yet sadly so many, programmed by the Blue Screen of Death, will choose the Blue Pill, over and over....