> Microsoft Linux
Man, what a time to be alive! Who would have thought it.
Edit: who's extending, embracing and extinguishing now?!
Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
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Re: Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
#12The article says Delridge is Debian based but appears to be using RPMs? Never seen that. I would have thought the primary advantage of being Debian based is the large repository of packages?
You can install RPMs on Debian but most probably you will run into filesystem-level conflicts with DEB packages. But if you are rebuilding your own Debian-based distro, nothing prevents you from packaging everything into RPMs instead of DEBs and that's see. Not that I see the point of that, though.
Re: Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
#13Why doesn’t MS use Server Core? If they don’t why would anyone use Server at all? Is AD even worthwhile anymore for a new company?
Re: Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
#14> Microsoft Linux Man, what a time to be alive! Who would have thought it. Edit: who's extending, embracing and extinguishing now?!
> Edit: who's extending, embracing and extinguishing now?!
Still an open question, I'd say.
Re: Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
#15The Devil's rummaging through his closet for some mittens.
This comment made me LOL. Thank you, that's pretty funny. I was curious if this was a saying I'd never heard of or if you just came up with it. Seems you just came up with this? What's amazing is that Google already has this HN post indexed and you're already the first hit for the phrase. And even weirder, Google says that they (currently) indexed it 56 minutes ago, when HN reports you posted it 23 minutes ago. Googl…
Get a grip old chap and think through the old saw: "... when Hell freezes over", meaning [it] will never happen. There are plenty of riffs on that meme, including devilish hand protection strategies.
Google is a boring old replayer of trite old stuff and quite right too - that's what it does! I suspect it also reads HN on a tight loop - many of the locals there are also from this parish.
I suspect even the eye of Sauron doom scrolls HN ...
Re: Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
#16The article says Delridge is Debian based but appears to be using RPMs? Never seen that. I would have thought the primary advantage of being Debian based is the large repository of packages?
actually you can (badly) use RPM content in Debian; the tooling to do that has been around for a very long time
Re: Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
#17Imagine writing Linux From Scratch and someone from Microsoft reads it and uses it to make a Linux distribution that goes on to power dozens of that trillion-dollar company's products.
To be clear, I'm not saying that "you should be outraged," necessarily. It's just an interesting thing.
Re: Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
#18No. Microsoft will buy Canonical for Ubuntu and that sweet, sweet developer mindshare. Ubuntu is the developer distro after all. Ubuntu will become Microsoft Linux.
Re: Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
#19Makes me think of Eric S. Raymond's erotic fanfic: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764
If this is going to be a desktop offering from Microsoft, I think it will be for remote cloud and potentially WSL2 use only. The future of desktop Linux is a VM under Windows.
Re: Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
#20No. Microsoft will buy Canonical for Ubuntu and that sweet, sweet developer mindshare. Ubuntu is the developer distro after all. Ubuntu will become Microsoft Linux.
Is this really realistic ?
Why would Microsoft get into the Linux Enterprise market?