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Windows networking commands in Linux: 5 equivalents you should know (plus WSL tricks)

The default behavior of ping on Linux and other Unix-like systems is different from Windows. On Windows, the ping command ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Bash on Windows: Getting Productive with Windows Subsystem for Linux

Bash on Windows: It's new, it's exciting, but what can you do with it? We'll show you how the magic works (including some extensions for Visual Studio developers) Full disclosure: I love working at a ...
PC World

Windows 10’s Bash shell can run graphical Linux applications with this trick

Microsoft said it wouldn’t support graphical applications in Bash on Windows. But enterprising geeks like w2qw on Reddit have already figured out how to run graphical applications with Bash on Windows ...
Redmond Magazine

Windows 10 Anniversary Update: Linux Inside

Graphical interfaces have come a long way over the years, but like many IT professionals today, I still spend a remarkable number of hours in either a terminal window or using keyboard productivity ...
LinuxInsider

Ubuntu Goes to Microsoft’s Windows 10 Bash

Microsoft on Wednesday unwrapped a major open source coup forCanonical when it announced that Ubuntu Linux will be able to run on Windows 10. Kevin Gallo, Microsoft’s director of Windows developer ...
Virtualization Review

Learn How to Bash: Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Microsoft, with the release of the Windows 10 anniversary update, gave their users a gift: the ability to run Linux (Ubuntu) on it. In a previous article, I explained how to enable Linux on Windows ...
ZDNet

Ubuntu (not Linux) on Windows: How it works

Yes, Microsoft is going to enable users to run Bash natively on Windows 10, and yes Ubuntu on the next major Windows 10 update, Redstone. How the heck did they do that? First, Ubuntu parent company ...