Dustin Kirkland, from the Ubuntu department Product and Strategy της Canonical παρακολουθεί το congress developer Microsoft Build 2016 taking place this week at San Francisco, between March 30 and April 1, and when the time came he announced the project "Ubuntu in Windows".
We had learned the news from rumors leaked ZDNet. The surprise project was initiated by a secret partnership between Canonical and Microsoft and aims to bring the Ubuntu shell to Windows 10, built in-built on the Windows 10 cmd.exe console.
The project is really very interesting, but not for the general public. It is intended (for the moment why we can see other applications) to developers who develop cross-platform applications for Windows and Linux and will save time from switching between different operating systems.
The "Ubuntu in Windows 10" project gives access to the Linux bash shell directly from the Windows Start menu.
Just type "bash" (without quotes), press Enter, and a cmd.exe console will open running bin, bash binary from Ubuntu.
The project gives users full access to tens of thousands of binaries available in Ubuntu repositories, such as apt, ssh, rsync, find, grep, vim, emacs, awk, sed, ruby, perl, python, wget, md5sum, gpg, curl, apache, gcc, diff, and patch.
"Ubuntu on Windows" is perhaps a very different approach from Microsoft to the competing Linux platform. The new Satya Nadella seems to have thrown away the taboos of the past that wanted Microsoft to hate Linux.
Or is this move a policy change aimed at "extermination" by merging the free operating system?
Why do developers use Windows 10 with Ubuntu's bash when they can work on a full Linux operating system that contains all the great features and is and will always be free of charge?
