Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10

Re:Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10 by leemailll on Monday May 06, 2019 @08:35PM (#19845345)

Do they also offer package management?

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Re:Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10 by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday May 06, 2019 @08:45PM (#19845397)

This is just kernel support; you use whatever userspace you want on top.

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Re:Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10 by chrisdfrey on Monday May 06, 2019 @08:41PM (#19845378)

Some of the existing WSL distros (like Ubuntu) already include package managers (like apt).

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Re:Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10 by techntoke on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:28AM (#19846586)

For Windows? No, that will continue to suck.

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Re:Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10 by machz on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:23PM (#19865096)

brew (used on MacOS) is working on extending support to Windows and Linux.

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