Ubuntu 16.04 will be available in the next big Windows 10 update

In the month of August we learned about a new update of Windows 10 that opened the way for us to use the Ubuntu bash. Specifically, a Linux subsystem that was based on Ubuntu 14.04, a very stable LTS version of Ubuntu but already outdated.

This version makes it possible for Linux scripts work on Windows 10, although they will not have the same update system as in Linux or even in Ubuntu.

As we have learned, Microsoft will launch an update of the Linux subsystem, that is, of the Ubuntu bash, an update that will implement Ubuntu version 16.04 but it will be next spring when all users finally have this version, right after Ubuntu 17.04 was released and a year after Ubuntu 16.04 version existed.

Ubuntu 16.04 will take a year to reach Windows 10 computers unless we use dual boot

At the moment users who have the fast ring will be able to have this version via Windows 10 Redstone 2 Build 14936 package. The rest of users in the month of April. In any case, as we have already commented previously, the update will be carried out through the command do-release-upgrade.

One of the things that the arrival of the Ubuntu Bash to Windows 10 meant is having to skip the dual boot installation or the use of virtual machines for certain tasks, but from what I've seen, it seems Ubuntu users will have to stick with dualboot systems or virtual machines to have a safe system free of security holes. Also Microsoft does not say anything about the latest security holes that Ubuntu versions are fixing, something that should at least inform the user.

In any case, it is still striking that Microsoft takes so long to update that part of the software even when it claims that it wants Linux. So if you thought that thanks to this news you would be able to forget the dual installations, you are very confused since it seems that they will last longer than we expect and want. Do not you think?