Microsoft Brings Ubuntu, Suse, Together With Fedora Linux To Windows Store

Microsoft has been expressing its dear for Linux together with Open Source for almost iii years now, together with this dear is embracing every bit fourth dimension passes.

Just end year, Microsoft made headlines yesteryear edifice back upward for the Bash musical rhythm together with Ubuntu Linux binaries into Windows 10, allowing users to run limited instances of Linux straight on peak of the OS without installing whatever virtual machine, every bit good every bit developers to run command-line tools spell edifice apps.

Now, Microsoft has announced at its Build developer conference inward Seattle that iii dissimilar flavors of the costless Linux operating arrangement are coming to the company's app store, together with then its users tin run Windows together with Linux apps side-by-side.

Yes, it's no joke. Three versions of Linux distributions – Ubuntu, Fedora, together with SUSE – are coming to the Windows Store.

Now, you'll before long last able to install these Linux operating systems on your Windows device but similar whatever other app.

While Ubuntu is already available on the Windows Store for anyone to download, Fedora together with SUSE are coming soon.

This latest deed yesteryear Microsoft follows its commitment to the opened upward root community. In 2013, the companionship launched Visual Studio 2013. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 twelvemonth later, it open-sourced .NET, together with inward 2015, it opened upward sourced the Visual Studio Code Editor, every bit well.

Just end year, the companionship brought Ubuntu on Windows 10, worked amongst FreeBSD to prepare a Virtual Machine image for its Azure cloud, chose Ubuntu every bit the OS for its Cloud-based Big Data services, together with fifty-fifty joined the Linux Foundation every bit a Platinum fellow member – the highest marking of membership, which costs $500,000 annually.

Adding Ubuntu, Suse, together with Fedora to the Windows Store is also a means to become inward easier for developers who dear using Linux software to allow them install the Linux version of their alternative on their Windows 10 machine.

What create y'all intend most Ubuntu, Fedora, together with SUSE coming to Windows Store? Let me know inward the comments below.

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