Ubuntu on Windows

For a while now I have had the fun of being involved with a new technology that we announced today.  Ubuntu on Windows.  This has nothing to do with virtualization – but is a great way to get access to all the great development tools that Linux has – directly from Windows.

There is a lot of information out on the Internet right now on this – so I want to give out some pointers:

• We have a ~20 minute demo and discussion of the technology here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488
• We have the official team blog post here: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/
• Dustin Kirkland – from Canonical – has done a great post here: https://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html
• And Scott Hanselman has a post available here: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx

Now I am just looking forward to when we have this publicly available for everyone to play with!

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 30, 2016
  Can you tell us when this will be available for Windows Insider users?
• Anonymous
  March 31, 2016
  @Bryson,It will be available in the next Windows Insider flight which is due in two weeks.