Ubuntu being 'sold' on Windows Store!

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  • July 11, 2017 at 7:57 am #10065
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      Yep – that is right!

      Read all about it on Microsoft developer.

       

      [edit] I should probably add a link that expands M$’s post a little. link

      July 11, 2017 at 8:13 pm #10089
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        I wonder why? If you want to run Linux, run Linux, and if you prefer Windows, do Windows. If you want both, install both natively and dual boot.

        But why, oh why, choose Ubuntu?

        Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

        July 11, 2017 at 8:22 pm #10090
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          I do not think it is ‘choice’. I would guess that they were able to reach agreements with Canonical ahead of Suse and Redhat. (The other distros that will come later). With respect to ‘why’ I think you would need to ask Dave, but as all that is offered is cli scripting my guess is that it is aimed at those running mixed server farms in which a Windows server acts as the main host in terms of maintaining the Linux (and Windows)  servers in the set up.

          July 11, 2017 at 11:36 pm #10100
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            Here is a did you know moment.

            Did you that windows has always supported the POSIX subsystem for windows if you installed the correct version. This was a US goverment requirement when NT was being developed.

            Windows is its self is a subsystem running on top of the NT kernel and executive. To save on duplication some OS functions are only implimented in the windows subsystem (Win32k.sys)  so that always gets loaded no matter what other subsystem you load.

            July 12, 2017 at 12:17 am #10104
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              Please excuse the typo’s in the above post. Left it too late to edit ?

              While ìm here though i will just mention that subsystem loading is session dependent so it is technically possible to load a different subsystem for every session on your PC should MS choose to support it.

              July 12, 2017 at 1:29 pm #10114
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                And one more thing. The originol user interface for NT was going to be OS/2 but then MS had a tiff with IBM and that subsystem got dumped

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