Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
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Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
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Re: Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
#2Wonderful.
I am a big supporter of Powershell, and while Powershell has supported remoting since almost day one, it will never enjoy quite as much support as SSH already receives (e.g. third party tools, firewall support, etc). It is also nice that they're looking into using something fairly "proven" secure, OpenSSH is exposed to the internet a lot (even if, yes, that is not best practice) so we can reasonably expect it to withstand day to day attacks.
In general people really are starting to run out of reasons to "hate" Microsoft. It will be interesting to see what they come up with in the future...
PS - I really hope later they expand this to SFTP support. SFTP is significantly better than either FTP or FTPS, and something Windows has lacked since forever.
Re: Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
#3I'm looking forward to MS just dropping their OS entirely and using linux as their back-end. Basically, Microsoft might be better off creating their own linux distribution running a "microsoft windows" windows manager.
Re: Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
#4Wow. Just wow. This is something I never expected to come from Microsoft. They may in fact be changing for the better.
Re: Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
#5I'm looking forward to MS just dropping their OS entirely and using linux as their back-end. Basically, Microsoft might be better off creating their own linux distribution running a "microsoft windows" windows manager.
Why? The windows core is a perfectly good alternative to Linux. It's always good to have competition.
Re: Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
#6I'm looking forward to MS just dropping their OS entirely and using linux as their back-end. Basically, Microsoft might be better off creating their own linux distribution running a "microsoft windows" windows manager.
Why? The windows core is a perfectly good alternative to Linux. It's always good to have competition.
How would we know unless we can read (and compile) the source code?
Re: Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
#7I'm looking forward to MS just dropping their OS entirely and using linux as their back-end. Basically, Microsoft might be better off creating their own linux distribution running a "microsoft windows" windows manager.
You mean desktop environment? Funnily enough, Windows started as one (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows#Early_versi...). It was considered a "graphical operating system shell", what we'd call a "desktop environment" these days.
It is technically doable, but I'm not sure the Windows NT kernel is worth discarding entirely. It has some fancy tech in there and if need be it can emulate POSIX through "personalities" aka subsystems (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX). Subsystems actually make it more flexible than Linux.
Re: Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
#8Well... all I can say is RESPECT!!!
But don't get lazy! We still need state of the art terminal!
Re: Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
#9I'm looking forward to MS just dropping their OS entirely and using linux as their back-end. Basically, Microsoft might be better off creating their own linux distribution running a "microsoft windows" windows manager.
With how Microsoft has been acting in the last year and a half, I wouldn't put it past them. They actually already produce a lot of Linux code (yes, it is self-serving, but still) and on their cloud platform (Azure) Linux definitely isn't a second class citizen and even backs some of their cloud solutions.
But in general the NT Kernel is pretty good and Windows Server is already moving to be more "Linux-like" (e.g. Core mode, all the GUIs now generate Powershell commands, etc). So it might be a while before Microsoft actually dropped NT and moved to Linux, least of all because it would require a lot of code changes in other products.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? The windows core is a perfectly good alternative to Linux. It's always good to have competition.
How would we know unless we can read (and compile) the source code?
Considering how few people read and compile the Linux source code, how do you know on Linux? Most distributions are binary, not source.