{"id":189668,"date":"2016-11-29T08:31:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T06:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=189668"},"modified":"2016-11-29T08:32:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T06:32:39","slug":"linux-developers-move-to-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/189668-linux-developers-move-to-windows-10.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux developers &#8211; move to Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has asked\u00a0Linux developers to move to Windows 10 as part of a video detailing &#8220;Improvements to Bash on Windows and the Windows Console&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Senior program manager Rich Turner made the call, stating that more improvements to the operating system were on the way, reported <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/microsoft-wants-all-linux-developers-to-move-to-windows-10-510551.shtml#ixzz4RJknUGjF\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire up a Windows 10 Insiders&#8217; build instance and run your code, run your tools, host your website on Apache, access your MySQL database from your Java code,\u201d said Turner.<\/p>\n<p>He said\u00a0the Windows subsystem for Linux is &#8220;there to provide developers with all the necessary tools to code just like they\u2019d do it on Linux&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever it is that you normally do on Linux to build an application: whether it&#8217;s in Go, in Erlang, in C, whatever you use, please, give it a try on Bash WSL, and importantly file bugs on us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report added that Microsoft recently joined the Linux Foundation as a platinum member.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/188430-4k-netflix-content-now-available-on-windows-10.html\">4K Netflix content now available on Windows 10<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has called for Linux developers to move to Windows 10, following improvements to the OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":127880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,1799,123,26970],"class_list":["post-189668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-linux","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189670,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189668\/revisions\/189670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}