<i>> Microsoft’s integration of Linux in Windows 10 will interface with a userspace installed via the Windows Store...</i><p>Given Microsoft's history, I can't help but wonder if this wholehearted embrace of Linux is part of a classic Microsoft embrace-extend-extinguish strategy.[a]<p>Is the endgame a Windows-only userspace layered on top of the Linux kernel?<p>[a] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...</a>
Previous discussion, with the official source: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842817" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842817</a>
I want native bash commands in Windows shell. I know powershell supports some commands, but and actual Linux shell to interface with the rest of windows will be awesome. WSL is getting there, sucks I've gotta install Python and node/npm twice.
So how will the kernel run? I guess virtualised behind the scenes using Hyper-V and accessed using the Windows Terminal? Seems that this should replace the WSL project entirely which is kind of a shame because it was pretty cool.<p>Also, unlike others here, I'm not a fan of a computing monoculture where everything is UNIX going forward.
Wonder what this will mean. Is the ability to run Linux commands and programs going to be there just so people who like Terminal can do their job without VMs? Is this a deeper move towards making apps more universal? That would remind me of when Mac OS migrated to x86 in some fashion.
Sounds great, however I had already assumed that in order to save money, Windows 10 was probably just an obfuscated linux kernel running some weird MS fork of Wine.