An Anonymous Coward writes:
Today at the Microsoft BUILD Conference [
keynote video [msdn.com]], Kevin Gallow, VP of Windows Developer Platform, announced that the Bash shell is coming to Windows in the form of an Ubuntu image running natively on Windows. This summer, an update will be available to Windows 10 that will allow you to run user mode Linux shells and command line tools, unchanged. According to
Scott Hanselman [hanselman.com], once you have the update, you can download Ubuntu on Windows from Canonical from the Windows store which will install a real Linux binary. Dustin Kirkland, part of Canonical's Ubuntu Product and Strategy team, explains this magic in more detail
here [dustinkirkland.com].
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