Keeping consistent with a guarantee it made during the Build meeting in May, Microsoft has now made Ubuntu accessible on the Windows Store. The famous Linux distribution was at that point recorded in the Windows Store for some back in May, however is currently accessible for all to download and keep running in Windows 10. Outstandingly, the distro must be introduced by Windows 10 Insider Preview build user.
In any case, before Ubuntu user get excited, you should know that this version for Windows is sandboxed, which means that you won’t get the chance to use every one of the elements of the service, and is limited to running command line utilities like Bash, SSH, GIT, Apt and more through a Ubuntu Terminal.
Setting up and running Ubuntu on Windows 10 is entirely basic. In the wake of installing it from the Windows Store, you should make a head for the Control Panel and select the choice “Turn Windows includes on or off”, and afterthat select “Windows Subsystem for Linux.” This will permit the Ubuntu application to work after a reboot.
On the other hand, the setup can also be performed using Administrator PowerShell prompt: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature – Online – FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux. After this is done, you basically need to enter “ubuntu” summon in cmd.exe or you can launch Ubuntu from the Start menu. Microsoft reported the news in a blog entry on Monday, confirming that Windows 10 Insider Preview assemble 16215 and higher versions will support the establishment. With respect to every other person, the distro will be installable simply after the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update takes off.
Microsoft had additionally said back in May that it would convey Fedora and SUSE Linux to Windows Store, and before the end of last month, OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise arrived. Including these Linux appropriations is a piece of Microsoft’s arrangement to grasp the open source group following its choice to convey the Bash Shell to Windows, which brought about the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
