Windows 10: Microsoft Offers Ubuntu, Suse And Fedora Through Windows Store

Hi there
Both SUSE and REDHAT are HUGE commercial organisations so tying up a bit with Ms will certainly be beneficial to both sides.

SUSE : Enterprise Linux, Openstack cloud, software-defined storage | SUSE

REDHAT : The world's open source leader

Both these support their open source distros completely -- SUSE -->OPENSUSE and REDHAT-->FEDORA and CENTOS.

My issue though with UBUNTU is unlike the other two organisations it's managed by Canonical -- a much more "Greedy" type of organisation and is going rather against the spirit of Linux in making a whole slew of proprietary stuff.


I can see lots of advantages of having both a Windows and Linux stack running on the same machine without say the need for different VM's - especially given the power of modern hardware -- even an average Laptop should be able to manage it quite successfully.

Note Fedora is the "Developer" version of RHEL (Red HAT) - it gets new updates and leading edge software so is not always the most stable. Centos is the open source "Clone" of the actual RHEL enterprise version - very stable and geared to Long term support so often runs older kernels and software -- built for 100% reliability and stability which is why it's used in 1000's of servers world wide - you can update kernels etc on it but you have to do it youself. For me I use it as a NAS server so I don't need to run "The latest and greatest" -- just boot it and let it run straight OOB 24/7 for months on end.

You can use FEDORA packages on it (Centos) too if you want to try the absolute latest software / hardware on it -- I use my server as a stable system not as a desktop OS so that's not important for me. For experimenting I'd probably try something like MINT though.

BTW CENTOS does have rolling releases also
Index of /rolling/7/isos/x86_64

The only downside I can see for this -- is trying to imagine some overloaded I.T dept having to manage defective machines and not knowing whether it's the Windows or Linux stack (or even both) causing the problem !!! -- A lot more education and training I think will be needed !!!!!.


Cheers
jimbo

 

I have been using Fedora for years and the latest release Fedora 25 is amazing. Release 26 in alpha and even better. I still use my old trusty Frontpage 2003 and managed via a "wine" front end to install.