Ubuntu on Windows, alliance between Canonical and Microsoft

We all know Windows, one of the most widely used «Paid» operating systems in the desktop computer market, and its counterpart Linux, the “No Payment” operating system that has revolutionized the way we use and work with computers, the development of distributions based on this core and the Open Source structure.

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For this reason, it is no secret that Windows, in its constant attempt to sell itself as the best system for its consumers, has used different strategies to position itself as the leader in this field. An example was the attempt to integrate Android into the Windows Phone operating system, something that was not as successful as expected. In this sense, it is not difficult to understand that the new Windows 10 now includes in its structure, tools from the Linux family, more particularly Ubuntu.

Here then is the union of a part of a rival system within another. This came about because Canonical and Microsoft have teamed up to work on this integration of Ubuntu tools in Windows 10.

This announcement was made by Microsoft in the BUILD 2016, event by the way of this company and that has left the computer community quite anxious about the details of the announcement. Among several things, it should be clarified that only the use of some Ubuntu functions is discussed, but not the complete integration of the distribution. That is, there is no talk of running two operating systems at the same time, but of managing only one, with a subsystem inside it. It must be taken into account that only the integration of Ubuntu in Windows was possible, not the other way around, in addition to the fact that this integration will not have similarities with a dual boot

More specifically, this part that will make up a fragment of the Windows structure will be the LXD containers and Ubuntu Bash Shell as native app. It is understood then that the user will be able to access the Linux terminal, and that the tools used and implemented will be merely from the libraries.

It is clear that there are many questions in this regard, one of them is Beá the community of free software developers may (not just Ubuntu, but other distros) will have access to contribute on this Linux snippet on Windows?

We do not know, and therefore we will have to wait for the details about it. What is known is that en days future tutorials will be available that will explain how to integrate Ubuntu into Windows, as a result of the updates made to the system. We will only have to wait for the necessary updates to fully execute the virtues of Ubuntu.

For those who want install dual boot on your computer, and the Windows 10 system and everything that is already acquired in it, here we will give you some steps to follow so that you install version 10 of the Microsoft system with Ubuntu.

With Windows:

  • Install Windows 10 on the computer; rRemember that during the installation you must set aside space on the hard disk for the subsequent installation of Ubuntu.

  • During the installation process, the partitions must be created; the first, intended for the operating system, and the second for booting.

  • At the end of the Windows installation, restart your computer, and then start installing Ubuntu.

With Ubuntu:

  • When starting the installation process, the wizard will ask you where the system will be installed; We will choose to customize to find a series of partitions, and then choose where the system will be installed.

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  • Choose to have the bootloader installed in the first parts of the DD. This is so that in case any partition is changed while it is active, Grub continues loading at startup by default.

  • Grub will automatically install and be configured with the systems that have been installed on the computer. This at the end of the installation.

At the end of the whole process we will have the dual boot available on our computer.

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Many users hope that in the future the integration of two operating systems exist. And although the purpose of this integration does not go down that path, it is already one step within many to achieve that desire. The basic idea is that you can operate one system or another, to the user's taste or need, one inside another, but it will be necessary to wait until such technology exists, and that leaving a system to enter and work with another is a thing of the past.


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  1.   Rafael Ferreira said

    Hard to believe the good intentions of a lion

  2.   Luis said

    This looks like an April Fools day joke

  3.   spa1fwg said

    I don't believe anything at Microsoft at all!

  4.   Gonzalo Martinez said

    The news of the Bash in Windows is days ago. It's not an april's fool day joke

    I still do not understand "that" Ubuntu is going to use Windows 10, since LXC / LXD and Bash are free, and are present in all distributions if you want, what's more, none is developed by Canonical.

    Besides that Bash is much older than Linux, and is present in all Unix since it was developed as a replacement for sh (from BSD or Solaris, to Mac OS X), bash is present even in other non-Unix operating systems, such as Novell Netware .

    When will the day be that people stop associating Linux / Free Software / GNU with linear Ubuntu and directly?

    On the other hand, I don't understand the article, it talks about integration, and after how to do a common and wild double boot, I don't find much relation to both concepts.

    1.    eliotime3000 said

      That's what I say. It is only a Dual-boot, nothing more.

      I thought it was an opinion column.

    2.    Sergio Duran said

      In itself I would use a minimal version of Ubuntu within Windows which would help to run not only bassh but even apt, gcc, cmake, git, wget and EVEN X11 apps

  5.   jvare said

    It seems like a test experiment, to see how it is received by users.
    But what I see in the future is that those who use GNU / Linux distributions stop eliminating Windows from their computers, especially those who use GNU / Linux to work, and thus drown those who create the distributions.
    The next step will be to mount on Windows the services that today are made on Linux servers, which is the part that hurts the gentlemen of Microsoft because they barely have 5 percent of the market.

    1.    Gonzalo Martinez said

      Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Squid, NFS, and the most common that you can think of since its inception years ago have binaries for Windows.

      I think it is an exaggeration to think that with Bash windows it is going to steal the market, when the average Windows user does not even know that the CMD exists. That the cunico is not panda.

    2.    TOM.MX said

      I also think that the thing is going there, mere positioning strategy, wolves in sheep's clothing, but wolves in the end. Cheers

  6.   Nonamed said

    windows + ubuntu

    what a botch

  7.   pablojet said

    eye if ubuntu comes integrated in the iso 10 it will triple the installations, probably that is why canonical lends itself to gates, what I understood is that the ubuntu image is integrated in the installation which seems barbarous to me, and it is not just a dualboot, being this what is obtained in the end, is like a multiboot image provided to the user from the distribution…. then I'm sure that from win10 you will be able to access the etx4 partitions, a step forward for Ubuntu to be the second OS on the market… .. added to the launch of vulkan, which will allow top games on linux, I see the future positive … ..

  8.   leopoldo said

    Nothing good comes from "that system that I don't want to remember" and nothing good has ever come to remember the saying "distrust Greeks who come with gifts", do as I do NOT use "that system we don't want to remember", install and use LINUX distros only.

  9.   mantisfistjabn said

    What was added was the Ubuntu command interpreter for Bash in order to facilitate the work of SysAdmins working on Azure services, which is based on Linux. All this is to increase its competitiveness in the server market and in cloud-computing, where the presence of Windows is almost nil.

  10.   Little android said

    It is hard to believe that Microsoft has good intentions and that it is actually doing things for the benefit of the end user.

    But if it's true, Microsoft will finally understand that open source is also very good.

    Greetings.

  11.   pass said

    hehe ...
    «You have to understand the past to understand the present» Pierre Vilar

    http://tecnologia.elpais.com/tecnologia/2011/02/11/actualidad/1297418462_850215.html

    Nokia teams up with Microsoft to fight Apple and Android
    It will use Windows Phone 7 and the Bing browser on its phones.
    Barcelona 11 FEB 2011 - 09:23 CET