Ubuntu Linux Is Coming To Windows 10 — Microsoft Partners With Canonical (Ezpected...)

fossbytes.com ^ | Mar 30, 2016 | Adarsh Verma

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #60!

[zeugma]

Cool. my personal preference if it’s absolutely necessary to have windows, is to run it in a box as a VM running under Linux.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well it is a real happening...see this from Anantech:

Microsoft Build 2016 Keynote Live Blog

*****************************************EXCERPT******************************

12:15PM EDT - showed off editing code in emacs

12:15PM EDT - bash brings the power of open source command line tools to Windows

12:13PM EDT - Bash should help devs who rely on open source frameworks

12:12PM EDT - Android bridge was also a subsystem even though it's dead now

12:12PM EDT - this is a subsystem, not the first to be added to WIndows

12:11PM EDT - native Ubuntu binaries running on Windows

12:11PM EDT - Bash Shell is coming to Windows

12:11PM EDT - devs struggle using WIndows as the home dev box

12:11PM EDT - Now moving on to hosted web apps

[aquila48]

I use ubuntu and I like the unity interface, even though it’s got some critics.

[rightwingcrazy]

“OK, dumb question here, if I switch to LINUX do my drivers still work? Do I have to spend weeks getting everything to mesh?”

Not a dumb question. I think the answer is “maybe”. It’s more likely to be a problem with cutting-edge hardware of some sorts, i.e. the sorts that are marketed to the lowest common denominator.

You could use a live CD of a Linux distribution to see if you’d run into any driver problems with your system.

[dayglored]

Windows 10 and Linux living together? Cats and dogs too... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!!

[wally_bert]

All printers pretty much are. I despise printers in just about every conceivable way.

90% of the problems I get called about in my facility are printer related. I’ve told my users that I’m for putting mini-Gutenberg presses on people’s desks and importing monks, scribes, and calligraphers and yanking all printers. Most think it’s funny. A few probably think I would if I could.

[wally_bert]

I tried years ago with Knoppix live and SuSE when her windoze box crashed.

That went nowhere.

I have Ubuntu as a second OS and toying with Mint on an older Lenovo laptop some.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ha! When I say “threatened” it was more like a 3 year conditioning exercise. She knew it was coming and there was but one program that she wouldn’t let go of WinXP for. But...It all worked.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I believe so. I last used Mint at v8.0 and it wasn’t quite ready for Primetime.

[TChad]

This is basically, Ubuntu user-space packages running natively on Windows 10 by Microsoft coming up with real-time translation of Linux system calls into Windows system calls.

I would have filed that under "Impossible tasks."