Microsoft has released an open source tool that makes it easier for programmers and developers to run Linux on Windows 10. The new tool also helps Linux distribution maintainers bring their distros to the Windows Store to run on Windows 10’s WSL. Microsoft developed the project for distribution maintainers and for developers who want to create custom Linux distributions to run on WSL. The development team hopes open-sourcing this project will help increase community engagement through bringing more distros to the Microsoft Store.
The Linux command line offerings of Windows 10 is very unattractive.
A more productive approach is to install either Linux or Windows 10 as the host OS and the other as a guest OS in Virtualbox - you have the best of Linux and the best of Windows 10.
If you want more versions of Linux running on the same system, just install them in Virtualbox (desktop or server versions).
Any virtual OS's can be paused and even the state saved if necessary (equivalent to hibernate) when not in use.
Nothing beats a fully functional installation of Linux.
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Microsoft Offers New Tool to Grow Linux in Windows
Posted by: Jack M. Germain April 2, 2018 04:00 AMMicrosoft has released an open source tool that makes it easier for programmers and developers to run Linux on Windows 10. The new tool also helps Linux distribution maintainers bring their distros to the Windows Store to run on Windows 10’s WSL. Microsoft developed the project for distribution maintainers and for developers who want to create custom Linux distributions to run on WSL. The development team hopes open-sourcing this project will help increase community engagement through bringing more distros to the Microsoft Store.
A more productive approach is to install either Linux or Windows 10 as the host OS and the other as a guest OS in Virtualbox - you have the best of Linux and the best of Windows 10.
If you want more versions of Linux running on the same system, just install them in Virtualbox (desktop or server versions).
Any virtual OS's can be paused and even the state saved if necessary (equivalent to hibernate) when not in use.
Nothing beats a fully functional installation of Linux.