You can apt-get and download other tools like Ruby, Redis, emacs, and on and on. The binaries are downloaded by you - using apt-get - just as on Linux, because it is Linux. This is an genuine Ubuntu image on top of Windows with all the Linux tools I use like awk, sed, grep, vi, etc. It's fast and lightweight and it's the real binaries. This is a real native Bash Linux binary running on Windows itself. This isn't Bash or Ubuntu running in a VM. It lets you run native user-mode Linux shells and command-line tools unchanged, on Windows.Īfter turning on Developer Mode in Windows Settings and adding the Feature, run you bash and are prompted to get Ubuntu on Windows from Canonical via the Windows Store, like this: But today at BUILD in the Day One keynote Kevin Gallo announced that you can now run " Bash on Ubuntu on Windows." This is a new developer feature included in a Windows 10 "Anniversary" update (coming soon). Of course, I didn't always find the prompts that worked like I did. In that past, that $ prompt meant "not for me" as a Windows user. UPDATE: I've recorded a 30 min video with developers from the project as well as Dustin from Ubuntu about HOW this works if you want more technical details.Īs a web developer who uses Windows 10, sometimes I'll end up browsing the web and stumble on some cool new open source command-line utility and see something like this:
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