[HLUG] Bad News! Windows 10 Will Soon Have a Real Linux Kernel - It's FOSS

[Ann]

They will mess it up of course.. or it will backfire and more people 
will chose to use a Linux distro and dump Windows..

Ann


On 08/05/2019 10:23, Julian Robbins via Herefordshire wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I know this sounds like an April fool but Microsoft will start shipping a
> real linux kernel within Windows . Who'd have thought it?
>
> Https://itsfoss.com/windows-linux-kernel-wsl-2/
>
> I guess this may not be a good thing for us Linux purists as it means that
> it will be easier than ever to run command line Linux on Windows, quicker
> than before. You can also apparently run Docker containers from the new
> Linux kernel too with security updates being applied automatically.
>
> Can't say I've ever really use the Linux on Windows feature as yet.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> Julian