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WSL adds Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial support

Rich Turner October 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016 10/19/16

Not only does Windows 10 Insider build #14951 introduce Bash Windows interop, it also delivers support for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial). While many of our more intrepid early-adopters have manually upgraded their Ubuntu 14.04 instances to Ubuntu 16.04, as of Windows 10 Insider build #14951, if you clean-install a new Linux instance or uninstall and...

Interop between Windows and Bash

Rich Turner October 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016 10/19/16

Note: Also be sure to read the follow-up to this post that covers a subsequent improvement in that you no longer have to specify the absolute path to Windows executables if they exist on your path! Content below updated to reflect this change! Windows 10 Insider build #14951 has just landed and includes a very exciting new feature that ...

WSL adds inotify & filesystem change notification support

Rich Turner October 7, 2016 Oct 7, 2016 10/7/16

Over the last few weeks, the Windows Subsystem for Linux team have been cranking away, fixing lots of issues, completing several scenarios that we were unable to complete before shipping Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and adding support for new capabilities that light-up additional tools and scenarios. A key capability that many developer ...

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October 2016 | Windows Command Line

WSL adds Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial support

Interop between Windows and Bash

WSL adds inotify & filesystem change notification support

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