Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
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Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#2It's like the Zune of Linux Distros!
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#3Someone has been predicting that Microsoft would in the future produce their own Linux Distro on Slashdot for the last 5 years. I remember thinking it sounded impossible for for the first few years. Seems prophetic now.
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#4Still cannot understand the IoT mentality. It is actually the CoT Communication of Things. Internet shouldn't be required to turn your lights on or off nor be the device communication backbone in an industrial enviornment. Internet should always be the last resort for communicating because of the distance.
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#5Still cannot understand the IoT mentality. It is actually the CoT Communication of Things. Internet shouldn't be required to turn your lights on or off nor be the device communication backbone in an industrial enviornment. Internet should always be the last resort for communicating because of the distance.
I can't monitor you or turn your light switch into a "service" that involves reoccurring payments if we don't use the internet to connect.... /s
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#6Microsoft has a lot of great engineers that have no religious bias against Linux. This was strictly a Bill Gates/Steve Ballmer thing. The smartest thing Nadella did was get rid of the Windows religion aspect to their work and let their engineers do the best thing, and not be afraid of Linux.
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#7The article pretends to answer why they're using Linux instead of the NT kernel, but the answer is either incomplete or a non sequitur; it seems to imply that since the devices has very little power, their kernel isn't a good fit. I thought the NT kernel was pretty good at low power, and also has a highly respected internal design?
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#8It's like the Zune of Linux Distros!
Not sure if you mean it as a slight, but I always thought the Zune was superior in every way to the iPod.
Windows Media player instead of iTunes to start with.
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#9Am I missing something here? The custom linux kernel part isn't interesting at all - in fact, Microsoft has pretty much admitted they can't scale down Windows.
What's interesting to me here is Microsoft is building an IoT solution that allows manufacturers to delegate security to Microsoft instead of having to roll their own.
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#10Am I paraphrasing this correctly:
> Microsoft-branded ARM microcontrollers running an embedded linux distribution. Microsoft rolls out security updates over Azure to reduce the risk of the device becoming part of a botnet.
It sounds great.