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Ubuntu Linux Arrives In Windows Store

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Adarsh Verma
May 12, 2017

Last year, at Build 2016, Microsoft surprised the world by announcing that the developers can install Bash shell on Windows 10. This was done with the help of Windows Subsystem for Linux, which is a compatibility layer for running Linux binaries on Windows. This feature was first launched with Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

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