Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 5:00 am
The above command will start to set up Linux to run on Windows 10. Windows server 2019 will also support Linux. Note GUI's are currently not supported, but a lot of stuff is. NTFS is still the file system, but it appears as a Linux drive to users. Variants of Linux supported from the Microsoft store are Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, SLES, Kali Linux, Debian GNU/Linux. So it's enable Linux via command line, then pick your Linux distribution.
None of this requires a virtual machine, all distributions work with X86 OR ARM native.
See - Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
also see - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
Windows server 2019 support (and comparison of native Linux with Windows Linux on a 64 core 128 thread AMD device are discussed) here - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... -bsd&num=1
It appears Windows is not only moving to dislodge itself from X86 by branching out to ARM, but is also seeking to adapt to Linux. How similar Linux under Windows is to WINE under Linux isn't clear to me. However at a high level of abstraction they appear very similar but of course reversed one using a Windows base the other using a Linux base.
The ability to run Linux binaries on Windows 10 and Windows server 2019 seems significant. That several variants are supported also seems different. My guess is Microsoft has to open source some of this to be license compliant.
These changes to Windows indicate it is moving to embrace POSIX generally. Embracing ARM is also a significant change, it may break the Windows / Intel near monopoly on hardware. Is Microsoft adapting due to increased demand for Linux? Over the past few years, Microsoft seems determined to expand it's reach into alternate software and hardware while preserving a Windows rubric controlling it all. The rate of expansion seems to be accelerating. If some of this is open source it's good, but if it's only available from the Microsoft store, can it really be open source?
None of this requires a virtual machine, all distributions work with X86 OR ARM native.
See - Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
also see - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
Windows server 2019 support (and comparison of native Linux with Windows Linux on a 64 core 128 thread AMD device are discussed) here - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... -bsd&num=1
It appears Windows is not only moving to dislodge itself from X86 by branching out to ARM, but is also seeking to adapt to Linux. How similar Linux under Windows is to WINE under Linux isn't clear to me. However at a high level of abstraction they appear very similar but of course reversed one using a Windows base the other using a Linux base.
The ability to run Linux binaries on Windows 10 and Windows server 2019 seems significant. That several variants are supported also seems different. My guess is Microsoft has to open source some of this to be license compliant.
These changes to Windows indicate it is moving to embrace POSIX generally. Embracing ARM is also a significant change, it may break the Windows / Intel near monopoly on hardware. Is Microsoft adapting due to increased demand for Linux? Over the past few years, Microsoft seems determined to expand it's reach into alternate software and hardware while preserving a Windows rubric controlling it all. The rate of expansion seems to be accelerating. If some of this is open source it's good, but if it's only available from the Microsoft store, can it really be open source?