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Great Bash Intro Video from Build 2017

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Rich Turner
In case you've not seen it yet, Bash/WSL team members Yosef, Paul & Ben, along with Sean Larkin (WebPack) & Ken Wheeler (FormidableLabs) talk about what Bash/WSL is, what it's for, and why it's an essential tool to them! Be sure to watch, and comment below and/or hit us up on Twitter if you have questions! Yosef (@yosefdurr) Paul...

Will Linux distros run on Windows 10 S?

May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017 05/18/17
Rich Turner
Will Linux distros run on Windows 10 S? Many people have asked "You just announced that Linux distro's are coming to the Windows Store - will they run on Windows 10 S?" The answer is No! Just because an "app" comes from the Windows Store does NOT automatically mean that it's safe & suitable for running in Windows 10 S. There are some ...

New distros coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

May 11, 2017 May 11, 2017 05/11/17
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/WSL Insiders build now supports usb/serial comms and mounting removable storage & network shares

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
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 ...

Windows 10 Creators Update: What’s new in Bash/WSL & Windows Console

April 11, 2017 Apr 11, 2017 04/11/17
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 ...

Haskell on Bash/WSL

February 9, 2017 Feb 9, 2017 02/9/17
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! :) ...

Use Visual C++ for Linux to build and debug C++ code on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17
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...

Bash in Windows Insider build 15002 – many fixes but a couple of bugs!

January 9, 2017 Jan 9, 2017 01/9/17
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 ...

Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated

January 4, 2017 Jan 4, 2017 01/4/17
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 ...