Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 for Developers
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At Microsoft BUILD in the Day One keynote, Kevin Gallo announced that you can now run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. Microsoft working with Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, has enabled developers to run Ubuntu on Windows 10. This is a continued expansion of the Microsoft and Canonical partnership to make it easier for developers that love Windows and Ubuntu. Microsoft and Canonical continue to bring the best Operating System experience to developers and users. I believe that the future of technology is about being open and supplying choice, together Microsoft and Canonical are doing just that by supplying Ubuntu on Windows.
What to Expect - This will be more than just running the Bash shell on Windows 10. This allows developers to run Ubuntu with Windows. This is integrated as part of Windows 10 this is not a virtual machine. We have with Microsoft integrated Ubuntu into Windows.
Canonical and Microsoft continue to collaborate around Azure Cloud (public andprivate) and Containers with work we are doing around LXD. LXD is an open-source hypervisor designed specifically for use with containers instead of virtual machines (VMs).
Canonical and Microsoft will continue to bring more Ubuntu and Windows collaboration over the up coming months. Canonical remains focused on making Ubuntu the operating system for Scale-out workloads, the cloud and developers.