Hey readers... Today we have a great news for linux lovers as.
'Microsoft loves Linux' so much that now the
company is bringing the popular Bash shell ,
alongside the entire Linux command environment,
to its newest Windows 10 OS in the upcoming
'Anniversary Update,' Redstone.
The rumours before the Microsoft’s Build 2016
developer conference were true. Microsoft has
just confirmed that it is going to enable its users
to run Bash (Bourne Again Shell) natively on
Windows 10. *You are reading this article on tricksalpha.blogspot.com*
Microsoft has partnered with Ubuntu's parent
company Canonical to ensure the Bash experience
for users is just as good in Windows OS as it's in
variants of Linux.
Although the Goal of the partnership, in the end,
is to bring Ubuntu on Windows 10, don't expect it
to run Ubuntu directly on Windows 10.
Microsoft has partnered with Ubuntu's parent
company Canonical to ensure the Bash experience
for users is just as good in Windows OS as it's in
variants of Linux.
Although the Goal of the partnership, in the end,
is to bring Ubuntu on Windows 10, don't expect it
to run Ubuntu directly on Windows 10.
Users will be able to download Bash from the
Windows Store. BASH or Bourne Again Shell is
capable of handling advanced command line
functionalities that are not a cup of tea for
Powershell or CMDs.
"The Bash shell is coming to Windows. Yes, the
real Bash is coming to Windows," said
Microsoft's Kevin Gallo at Build 2016 keynote.
"This is not a VM [Virtual Machine]. This is not
cross-compiled tools. This is native."
There already exists third-party apps to
implement Bash shell running on Windows, such as
Cygwin or MSYS. But the new move by Microsoft
would eliminate the usage of 3rd party utilities,
offering, even more, flexibility for developers
who prefer using these binaries and tools.
How to Run Bash on Windows?
Users just have to follow these simple steps to run
Bash on Windows 10 OS:
1.)Open the Windows Start menu
2.)Type "bash"
3.)Hit 'Enter'
This will open a command line console (cmd.exe)
running Ubuntu's /bin/bash , Dustin Kirkland,
Canonical's Ubuntu Product.
The system features a full Ubuntu user space
complete with support for tools including ssh, apt,
rsync, find, grep, awk, sed, sort, xargs, md5sum,
gpg, curl, wget, apache, mysql, python, perl,
ruby, php, vim, emacs and more.
This is not Microsoft Linux for
Windows
Don’t get confused, as Microsoft is not enabling
all Linux applications to run on top of Windows nor
this is "Microsoft Linux." The company is just
providing support for Bash on Windows 10 as an
expansion of its command-line tool family.....
So, the company is working on integrating Ubuntu
User Space in Windows 10, as a hacker has already
spotted a Linux subsystem in preview build (build
14251) of the Windows 10 code in late January.
As Kirkland write: "So just Ubuntu running in a virtual machine?"
Nope! This isn't a virtual machine at all.
There's no Linux kernel booting in a VM under a
hypervisor.
It's just the Ubuntu user space.
"Ah, okay, so this is Ubuntu in a container
then?" Nope! This isn't a container either.
It's native Ubuntu binaries running directly in
Windows. "Hum, well it's like cygwin perhaps?"
Nope! Cygwin includes open source utilities are
recompiled from source to run natively in
Windows. Here, we're talking about bit-for-bit,
checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries
running directly in Windows.
This isn't Microsoft's first step towards
implementing Linux functionality in Windows. Just
last year, Microsoft had worked on the Linux
Kernel and made a Linux OS called Azure Cloud
Switch . It also chose Ubuntu as the operating
system for its Cloud-based Big Data services.....
_/\_ Thank you _/\_
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