Microsoft is adding the Linux Bash shell to Windows 10

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This is truly huge news, it is not an emulation, cross compilation or a VM but truly native!! They have actually partnered with Canonical of Ubuntu fame to make this happen. I had to check the date to see if it was an April Fool's joke.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash
 
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I've been saying for a while that Microsoft should just adopt the Linux kernel, and provide backwards compatibility with their old software through NT syscall translation and compiling their libraries for the new platform. I guess this is a step in that direction.

I think I did read something about them working to provide Linux syscall translation.
 
Patriotic American said:
I've been saying for a while that Microsoft should just adopt the Linux kernel, and provide backwards compatibility with their old software through NT syscall translation and compiling their libraries for the new platform. I guess this is a step in that direction.

I think I did read something about them working to provide Linux syscall translation.
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Kirkland continued, "A team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls. Linux geeks can think of it sort of the inverse of "WINE" -- Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows. Microsoft calls it a "Windows Subsystem for Linux". (No, it's not open source at this time.)"

Some people are already saying: "Oh I bet that runs like a 100-meter sprinter on a track of mud." Wrong. Kirkland claims "it's totally hot. The sysbench utility is showing nearly equivalent cpu, memory, and I/O performance."
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http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-not-linux-on-windows-how-it-works/
 
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