WSL adds Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial support

Running lsb_release
Running lsb_release

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…

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Interop between Windows and Bash

Open Notepad from Bash
Open Notepad from Bash

Windows 10 Insider build #14951 has just landed and includes a very exciting new feature that we know you’re going to love: Bash <–> Windows Interop! Many of you have been asking for this capability for quite a while, and now it’s finally here! Starting with build #14951, you can: Call Windows executables from within…

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WSL adds inotify & filesystem change notification support

inotify example
inotify example

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 have been waiting…

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