![]() ![]() One that makes sense, as it appears Microsoft has simply accepted that many companies will use Linux for their servers because of the lack of licensing costs and if they can make it easier for developers to dev directly on Windows without needing to use other Virtual Machines, they give companies more reason to stick with them. Now Microsoft supporting Linux is not exactly something new, as the company has over the years created a Bash Shell and OpenSSH interfaces for Windows 10 and include various flavours of Linux on their app store, however, integrating an entire Linux kernel directly into the OS is definitely a different direction for the company. The kernel will be rebased at the designation of new long-term stable releases to ensure that the WSL kernel always has the latest Linux goodness. The kernel itself will initially be based on version 4.19, the latest long-term stable release of Linux. As Microsoft program manager Jack Hammons explains below:īeginning with Windows Insiders builds this Summer, we will include an in-house custom-built Linux kernel to underpin the newest version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). ![]() ![]() In surprising news revealed at their current Developer Conference, Microsoft unveiled plans to cater for this development crowd by including a full Linux kernel directly within Windows 10. A dominance that remains strong but has seen some erosion, particularly on the software development side where companies have been preferring Linux to run and develop their software on. While Apple and Google have taken jabs at the operating system market thanks to their iOS and Android mobile operating systems, Microsoft has been able to maintain their dominance. ![]()
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