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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: 0s | source
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0x0 ◴[30 Mar 16 16:33 UTC] No.11390517[source]▶
I wonder if this will mean that Windows will ship a more up to date Bash than OSX!

Apple stopped updating Bash in OSX when the upstream license changed from GPL2 to GPL3, I believe. (Fortunately, they keep the bundled zsh more up to date)

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hxegon ◴[30 Mar 16 16:43 UTC] No.11390634[source]▶
wow, so... 2007?
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1. jonhohle ◴[30 Mar 16 16:49 UTC] No.11390721[source]▶

    $> uname -a
    Darwin K2523 15.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.4.0: Fri Feb 26 22:08:05 PST 2016; root:xnu-3248.40.184~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
    $> which bash
    /bin/bash
    $> bash --version
    GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15)
    Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.