Ubuntu’s availability in the Windows Store will impact developers And at OSCON 2017 I delivered a talk on the architecture and history of Bash/WSL, and outlined these new features. Thanks to the great OSCON audience & attendees for all your great support & engagement. Along with the popular Linux distribution coming to the Store, Suse and Fedora are coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which means that developers will be able to enjoy faster and more reliable downloads. They’ll also have the opportunity of installing Linux distributions to secondary fixed drives and they’ll be able to run various distributions more closely with production environments. What’s even more interesting is the fact that developers will be able to run more than just one distribution at a time and this will turn out to be great for working on machines that span different environments. Turner also highlighted the fact that WSL was designed to be “distro-agnostic” and this is the very first time they’re exercising this specific aspect. He was also very grateful and appreciative of the help received during the testing processes and advised testers to file all encountered bugs or problems in the GitHub issues repo. The latest features are set to arrive in an upcoming Windows Insiders build. RELATED STORIES TO CHECK OUT:
Running Ubuntu on top of Windows 10 is a thing thanks to Bash Microsoft brings a lot of improvements to Bash on Ubuntu in Windows 10 Ubuntu, SUSE, and Fedora will be available in the Windows Store this fall
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