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Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

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535 points raddad | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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FLGMwt ◴[30 Mar 16 11:40 UTC] No.11388514[source]▶
Would anyone be able to give insight on why this would be useful? Im curious, sure, but I'm at a loss to think of a use case.
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1. ygra ◴[30 Mar 16 12:09 UTC] No.11388642[source]▶
Perhaps avoid dual-booting or VMs in environments where you need both Linux and Windows.

This sounds either a bit like CoLinux, or like the POSIX subsystem revived. Remember: Windows has kernel support for different userspace APIs, and the well-known Windows API is just that: A user-mode subsystem running atop the kernel (there have been OS/2 and POSIX subsystems before).