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A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution

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Re: A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution

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Post by trevorishere »

mdaniel wrote: post #105
josephg wrote: post #10

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I understand a lot of the benefits of ZFS and Powershell. But whats wrong with NTFS? Can you talk a little about the relative strengths of NTFS vs EXT4?

NTFS also has a 260 character path limit [0], which as the sibling comment says can really jam up node_modules and the current HEAD of the intellij-community repo which currently has some giant filename in a subdirectory of its repo I'm aware of their claim about using Group Policy to remove the limit but I've never used GP in order to know its sharp edges for my gaming computer 0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi…

NTFS has never had a limit of other than 32K. MAX_PATH limited 260 characters for the Win32 API (among others). It has always been possible to bypass the 260 character limit, though obviously most applications wouldn't work with a file that exceeded the system-defined MAX_PATH value.

Office does its own thing and doesn't leverage MAX_PATH. No idea why.

Re: A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution

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Post by trevorishere »

dboreham wrote: post #19
jeswin wrote: post #12

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Certainly not for me. Registry was one of the worst parts of the Windows experience for me; but I understand it can be subjective. With separate files, the ability to download and replace them individually is a big win. Also, I can use terminal tools on them which is great for automation.

Registry never made much sense on the local system: just use the filesystem. I assume there was once a plan to use it in a networked fashion. But Active Directory replaced it for that purpose.

For Windows, it's faster than accessing the file system (thanks to file system filter drivers).

Re: A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution

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Post by chem83 »

pjmlp wrote: post #116
sterlind wrote: post #114

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what was wrong with Midori? I wasn't on the team but I played around with it, and thought that the architecture was absolutely beautiful. It's a tragedy that it wasn't open-source. I understand that there wasn't much appetite towards "replacing Windows" when we were losing ground fast to mobile, but it's a loss to the academic community at least.

Politcal feuds if you read between the lines of statements like "The project included novel “cultural” approaches too, being 100% developers and very code-focused, looking more like the Microsoft of today and hopefully tomorrow, than it did the Microsoft of 8 years ago when the project began." . Joe Duffy has similar remarks on his posts and post morten sessions done about the project.

Some extra insight here: https://twitter.com/funcOfJoe/status/1121963970661715968
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