Linux environment on Windows means new options for developers
A news of introducing new feature in Windows 10 is reviled by tech watcher from a conference on Microsoft Build 2016 conference in the United State. In this conference the special thing is that "Microsoft is bringing the Bash Shell to Windows 10."
"The announcement received an uproarious applause from the crowd," wrote Chris Welch in The Verge.
"Bash (Bourne Again SHell) has long been a standard on OS X and many Linux distribution systems, while the default terminal for developers on Windows is Microsoft's own PowerShell." - Frederic Lardinois in TechCrunch.
Bash is the Linux system software called as shell which can control overall Linux system.
Scott Hanselman a Portland, Oregon programmer who works for the web platform team at Microsoft, had the story about a keynote announcing you can now run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.
"This is a new developer feature included in a Windows 10 'Anniversary' update (coming soon)," he said.
"It lets you run native user-mode Linux shells and command-line tools unchanged, on Windows...This is a real native Bash Linux binary running on Windows itself. It's fast and lightweight and it's the real binaries."
'Real" is a key word in the buzz surrounding all this. News Channel Managing Editor Brandon Hill in Hot Hardware recognized a distinction about the announcement, saying "this isn't just Ubuntu running in a virtual machine. Instead, Ubuntu will be fully integrated into the Linux subsystems that course through Windows 10's veins."
Linux and Windows in the same neighborhood without virtualization? For developers, that means getting more breathing space in working with Bash, more options in helping to bring software to the widest possible audience.
Hanselman said, "This is a developer-focused release that removes a major barrier for developers who want or need to use Linux tools as part of their workflow."
Bash will arrive as part of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update this summer, said TechCrunch.
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