It seems good, but i have doubt, about virus in windows, the can affected to linux too. I don't like that
Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
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Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#22cant believe I have lived enough to read this news!!
Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#23I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Rock on Microsoft, rock on.
> Azure runs on Linux
Are you sure? I thought I'd read Azure runs on Windows's HyperV.
Or perhaps you meant "Azure runs Linux".
Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#24I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Rock on Microsoft, rock on.
> And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Ubuntu userland, with no Linux kernel. It could be more appropriately named GNU/Windows, amusingly enough.
They didn't build an Ubuntu userland. They did build a subsystem that pretends to be Linux (the kernel) and takes and processes Linux syscalls.
It's just that Ubuntu itself runs on Linux, so they can run Ubuntu on this subsystem. Nothing technical stopping other userspaces to be run on it.
So it is quite appropriately named "Windows Subsystem for Linux". What you are talking about may be called "Ubuntu on Windows", "Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux", or "Ubuntu on WSL". (pardon the long names, not my choice. Bad/long naming is an old Microsoft trope.)
Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#25Worrying news, when looking at Microsoft's strategy in the past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
The Linux Foundation may have just accepted a Trojan Horse (or rather, a Redmond Horse). I hope it turns out for good for all.
I'd love to see better contributions to Linux. If Microsoft can help make Wine better, then the playing field could be level. But it is scary to think that so many years of open source software available on Linux will eventually be available to Windows users without being ported to Windows, and then Linux suffers more. Hopefully it will be good for all.