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title: Boxes becomes part of Windows 10
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date: 2016-08-02 13:24:00 +0100
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<i>Boxes</i> is now part of Windows 10! This sounds amazing, and it is - albeit, to be honest,
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in an indirect way. Since this year's "anniversary update", Windows 10 features an optional
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<a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about" target="_blank">Ubuntu Subsystem</a>, which supports
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<i>boxes</i> natively. This is mostly thanks to
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<span class="atmention"><a href="https://github.com/carnil">@carnil</a></span>, who maintains the
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Debian packages; and Debian being the foundation of Ubuntu. So, like I said, it is an indirect way, but still, we can't
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help being a little proud of the fact! <!--break-->
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<p>The Ubuntu Subsystem is optional and thus needs to be activated manually. Microsoft provides a reasonably simple
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<a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/install_guide"
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target="_blank">guide</a> on how to do that. After starting a bash in the Ubuntu Subsystem,
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you can activate <i>boxes</i> by typing:</p>
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<p><pre style="background-color:white; border:0;">
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<b>tsjensen@FRACTAL:~$ sudo su -</b>
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[sudo] password for tsjensen:
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<b>root@FRACTAL:~# apt-get install boxes</b>
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Reading package lists... Done
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Building dependency tree
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Reading state information... Done
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The following NEW packages will be installed:
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boxes
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Selecting previously unselected package boxes.
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Preparing to unpack .../boxes_1.1.1-3_amd64.deb ...
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Unpacking boxes (1.1.1-3) ...
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Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
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Setting up boxes (1.1.1-3) ...
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<b>root@FRACTAL:~#</b></pre></p>
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<p>Now, all boxes features are present:</p>
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<p><img src="/images/windows10-ubuntu-1.png"/></p>
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<p>Even the manual page is available:</p>
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<p><img src="/images/windows10-ubuntu-2.png"/></p>
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