Microsoft today announced at its Build conference in San Francisco that it’s bringing the Bash shell to Windows. Bash is a common Unix command-line tool for working with source code. It ships with ...

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 was released nearly 3 years ago. This brought the ability to run the Bash shell and run Linux binary executables that you’d be able to run on Ubuntu Linux.

Before we see how to run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, here’s a little bit about Microsoft’s amazing step of integrating user mode Linux and its tools into Windows OS. Who would have thought one would be ...

This beta version of Windows 10 is the forerunner of the next major Windows 10 update: Windows 10 Redstone 1 (a k a Anniversary Update). This release, AKA Windows 10 SP1, will be out this summer. In ...

Microsoft explained a little more about its support for the Bash shell on Windows, as unveiled during its Build keynote talk on Wednesday. The Bash shell actually is the native Bash command line tool ...

A Windows 10 preview build now has some basic Bash shell capabilities that only Windows Insider members can check out in a test environment. Microsoft announced that developers registered with the ...

During BUILD 2016, Microsoft said the upcoming Anniversary Update planned for Windows 10 this summer would include Linux-based Bash support for developers, allowing them to run Unix commands within ...

Here is an announcement from Microsoft Build you probably didn’t see coming: Microsoft today announced that it is bringing the GNU project’s Bash shell to Windows. Bash (Bourne Again SHell) has long ...

Microsoft Windows may be the dominant player on the desktop, but the rapidly increasing open source software market—especially for admin and dev tools—clearly favors Linux. Not to mention the mobile ...