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May 11, 2017
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New distros coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

We're REALLY excited about this announcement and think many of you will be too ;) On May 11th 2017, during Microsoft's Build conference keynote, Terry Myerson (EVP for Windows & Devices Group) made several announcements about the Windows Subsystem for Linux: And at OSCON 2017 I delivered a talk on the architecture and history of Bash...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Windows 10Windows Store
May 10, 2017
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Bash/WSL Insiders build now supports usb/serial comms and mounting removable storage & network shares

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

At the end the post announcing what's new in Bash/WSL in Win10 Creators Update, I stated: We continue to forge ahead with many planned improvements and exciting new features. Stay tuned for lots more exciting features coming in future releases of Windows 10: If you want to be among the first to access and experience improvements planned for t...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Apr 11, 2017
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Windows 10 Creators Update: What’s new in Bash/WSL & Windows Console

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

When Windows 10 Anniversary Update (AU) was shipped, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was still far from complete, and was known to have many incompatibilities, especially with popular developer tools like node.js, Java, etc. However, it was important to get this exciting new feature into the hands of real users so that we could learn from th...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command LineWindows Console
Feb 9, 2017
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Haskell on Bash/WSL

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

I've recently received a couple of questions asking when Haskell support would be added to WSL, and was surprised since I thought Bash/WSL users were aware of the fact that Haskell has been working for the last few weeks, ever since #14986 in fact, but it appears that we'd not explicitly communicated the fact, so ... here we are! :) Haskell now...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Feb 8, 2017
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Use Visual C++ for Linux to build and debug C++ code on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

I first learned about Visual C++ for Linux, which was released in March 2016, shortly before the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was first announced. I was immediately blown away by how VERY cool this feature of Visual Studio is! What's insanely cool about this feature is that when the project is built, VS opens an SSH channel to a target Linux ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command LineWindows Console
Jan 9, 2017
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Bash in Windows Insider build 15002 – many fixes but a couple of bugs!

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

[Update 2017-02-07] Note that both of the two issues noted below have been fixed in more recent Insider builds Windows Insider build #15002 started shipping to Windows Insider Fast Ring users today, January 9th 2017. As is often the case in software development, after many teams have been beavering-away on their features for several months, thing...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Jan 4, 2017
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Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

This post is in response to a story published on December 6th 2016 by ComputerWorld titled "Say goodbye to the MS-DOS command prompt" and its follow-up article "Follow-up: MS-DOS lives on after all". These "stories" were subsequently picked up by Business Insider and Life Hacker among others and fueled a number of concerned Tweets some of which I ...

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