{"id":219056,"date":"2017-07-11T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T06:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=219056"},"modified":"2017-07-11T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T06:40:11","slug":"ubuntu-linux-now-available-in-windows-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/219056-ubuntu-linux-now-available-in-windows-store.html","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Linux now available in Windows Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/store\/p\/ubuntu\/9nblggh4msv6?ranMID=24542&amp;ranEAID=TnL5HPStwNw&amp;ranSiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-S2c9uCFwayeG3Yyffp.6sQ&amp;tduid=(32abac36146ad10546384a3ce3f6c00d)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-S2c9uCFwayeG3Yyffp.6sQ)()\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Canonical\u2019s Ubuntu Linux<\/strong><\/a> is now available in the Windows Store, which makes it easier for users to install the Linux OS.<\/p>\n<p>This follows\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/210448-ubuntu-suse-and-fedora-linux-comes-to-windows-store.html\"><strong>Microsoft stating that Ubuntu, SUSE, and Fedora Linux<\/strong><\/a> are coming to the Windows Store.<\/p>\n<p>The Ubuntu installation through the Windows Store is sandboxed, and is aimed at running command line utilities like bash, SSH, Git, and Apt.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also announced in May that it was working on SUSE Linux and Fedora Linux running on the Windows Subsystem for Linux.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, Windows is the only platform that can run both Windows apps and Linux apps side-by-side,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Commentators said it is a \u201cgreat move so that updates for Ubuntu will be separate from Windows\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is advised to install Ubuntu in drive C: or \u201cyou will get a file system error\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/210448-ubuntu-suse-and-fedora-linux-comes-to-windows-store.html\">Ubuntu, SUSE, and Fedora Linux comes to Windows Store<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canonical\u2019s Ubuntu Linux is now available in the Windows Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":89177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[43136,123,44446,967,7373],"class_list":["post-219056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-fedora-linux","tag-microsoft","tag-suse-linux","tag-ubuntu","tag-windows-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219056"}],"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=219056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219118,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219056\/revisions\/219118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}