‘Safe and predictable’ Windows 10 S won’t run Linux, says Microsoft
http://www.zdnet.com/article/safe-and-predictable-windows-10-s-wont-run-linux-says-microsoft/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content

Microsoft wants to clear up confusion about Windows 10 S and Linux distributions available on the Windows Store.

Just because Linux distributions are coming to the Windows Store, it doesn’t mean they will work on laptops running Microsoft’s streamlined Windows 10 S.

Microsoft wants to clear up any confusion over two recent announcements. At the beginning of May it unveiled Windows 10 S, a fast-booting, locked-down version of Windows 10 that can only install apps from the Windows Store and is restricted to Microsoft’s Edge browser.

Windows 10 S ships with Microsoft’s $1,000 Surface Laptop, as well as with forthcoming third-party Windows laptops that will be priced from $189 to take on the Chromebook market.

“Running Linux binaries natively on Windows… that sounds awesome indeed,” writes Hannes Kuhnemund, the senior product manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise. He’s written a blog post describing how to run openSUSE Leap 42.2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 on Windows 10

Currently it’s Ubuntu that’s enabled by default in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, although there’s already a project on GitHub that also lets you install Arch Linux.

Make Windows green again – Part 1
https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/make-windows-green-part-1/

However, it’s quite unfortunate that Microsoft enabled the wrong Linux (that’s my personal opinion) by default within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and it is time to change it to the real stuff.

If you are one of those people who says: “Wait a second, I’m running SUSE Linux on my desktop / laptop already and I’m not using Windows 10 by any means” then you might want to stop reading now because you are already there.

it’s hard to have both Windows and Linux truly accessible at the same time. You’d either have to go with a dual boot setup, or you may leverage virtualization and run a Linux VM on Windows (or vice versa), or you might be familiar with Cygwin allowing you to run recompiled Linux binaries on Windows. All of those options have their advantages and disadvantages – so do we need another one?

Yes, we do. But we need one; the integrated one leveraging the green Linux from SUSE.

Assuming that you are running Windows 10 already, there are simple steps you have to follow to install a SUSE Linux distribution inside WSL

A massive set of changes to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was rolled into Windows Insider build 15002… If this is any hint, Microsoft’s goal is nothing short of making it a credible alternative to other Linux distributions… Some of the fixes also implement functionality that wasn’t available before to Linux apps in WSL, such as support for kernel memory overcommit and previously omitted network stack options. Other changes enhance integration between WSL and the rest of Windows…

[O]ne major issue in build 15002 is that Ctrl-C in a Bash session no longer works

Bash on Windows is becoming Linux for Windows users
Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux is evolving into a credible alternative to running Linux inside Windows on VMs
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3155994/microsoft-windows/bash-on-windows-is-becoming-microsofts-linux.html

Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation as a Platinum member
http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation-as-a-platinum-member/

At its Connect(); 2016 developer event in New York City today, Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation. And the company isn’t joining just to say it did: Microsoft is joining at the Platinum level, the highest level of membership, which costs $500,000 annually. John Gossman, architect on the Microsoft Azure team, will sit on the foundation’s Board of Directors and help underwrite projects.

The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit technology group that advances open technology development and commercial adoption, and not just for Linux. It provides tools, training, and events to scale any open-source project. Microsoft already contributes to several of its projects, including Node.js Foundation, OpenDaylight, Open Container Initiative, R Consortium, and Open API Initiative.

Microsoft is pitching the move as its latest effort to work more closely with the open-source community, which it believes will benefit its customers through increased collaboration and innovation. And The Linux Foundation agrees.

“Microsoft has grown and matured in its use of and contributions to open-source technology,” The Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin said in a statement. “The company has become an enthusiastic supporter of Linux and of open-source and a very active member of many important projects. Membership is an important step for Microsoft, but also for the open-source community at large, which stands to benefit from the company’s expanding range of contributions.”

The latest Windows 10 Insider preview — build 14936 — features Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. When a user enables the ‘Bash on Ubuntu on Windows’ feature for the first time, OMGUbuntu reports, Windows 10 now installs an Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) image instead of Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr).

Ubuntu 16.04 Available in Latest Insider Update to Windows 10
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/10/windows-10-linux-subsystem-ubuntu-16-04

When enabling the ‘Bash on Ubuntu on Windows’ feature for the first time Windows 10 now installs an Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) image instead of Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr).

It is possible to upgrade WSL instances from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04 manually by running the do-release-upgrade command.

Windows 10 Preview Build 14936 is only available to Windows insiders who are in the fast-ring.

A lot of us spend a lot of time switching between Windows and Linux.

What I hate most about Windows is how hard is it to see what’s going on under the hood.

War is Shell

One place where Linux always used to have an advantage over DOS and Windows was the shell. There are lots of variations available under Linux, but bash seems to be the current pick for most people.

In the old DOS days, some of us went to 4DOS which was nice, but no bash

Windows Power

Microsoft finally addressed the shortcomings of its default command interpreter, first introducing Windows Scripting Host to allow Javascript and VBScript batch files. Eventually, this was supplanted by Monad which later became known as the Windows PowerShell.

Shell Shock

Two things have recently happened that surprised me. First, Microsoft made bash available (and other Linux executables) for Windows 10 as a native application
I’ve used Cygwin and UWIN to have a very full-featured Linux environment under Windows for years
Sure, NT used to have a crippled POSIX subsystem, but it wasn’t practical.

The second piece of news that surprised me is that you can now get PowerShell for Linux or OS/X.

So now you have several options for using Linux and Windows without going crazy switching between the two:

Run Linux and put Windows in a virtual machine
Run Windows and put Linux in a virtual machine
Use bash everywhere (using Cygwin or the Microsoft product)
Use PowerShell everywhere

How to enable and using Linux (Ubuntu) on Windows 10 with “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows!” In this video I’m using the Insiders Build 14379 which you can get now OR you can wait for Windows 10 Anniversary Edition coming soon!

UPDATE: I failed to mention that you need to enable “Developer Mode” in Windows Settings. Sorry for the omission.

Things got a little freaky last week when Microsoft and Canonical showed us Bash running natively on Windows 10. It turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg.

Though most reports focused on Bash itself, what Microsoft and Canonical actually delivered was a complete Linux userland. It can handle more than Bash, and it turns out that it can actually handle a whole lot more than just apps that run in a terminal window.

Intrepid experimenters running the latest Windows 10 preview build that have been playing with this new functionality have actually gotten GUI-based Linux apps to run under Windows.

The GUI version of Vim, Nautilus, gedit, Firefox (the Linux version, that is) have all been reported to run.

Attempts have been made to dispose of the machine’s entire file system.

Trying to delete all files on Linux type file system does not destroy Windows, even if it is yes to freeze the Windows Subsystem for Linux software as Root does not mean the same as Windows.

There are still some Linux commands that can cause damage…

Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4236:linux-komennoilla-ei-voi-tuhota-windowsia&catid=13&Itemid=101