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Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

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Re: Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

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Post by sixothree »

mscasts wrote: post #2

That is really something, before as a dev coming from linux when I first was about to login on a Windows Server I didn't understand how to do it since it were no SSH. Administrating the server via a GUI always felt backwards somehow. Why waste CPU cycles on rendering a UI when the CLI is so great (on linux)?

Most of those GUIs are just wrappers for the CLI to begin with.

Heck, the default installation of windows does not even have a GUI. People ahem really need to update their thinking of what it means to be Windows.

Re: Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

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Post by aaaaaaaaaab »

emilfihlman wrote: post #14
npmaile wrote: post #10

Now all they have to do is switch their kernel to linux, their gui to kde and get their office suite to LibreOffice, and Windows will be the perfect computer.

Windows ux is better out of the box than on any Linux so far, it's really polished. The office suite is also much better than alternatives. So just switching the kernel to Linux would be enough and super winrar.

Windows UX is really polished? Are you on Win7 by any chance?

Re: Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

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Post by mey »

lotyrin wrote: post #19
taf2 wrote: post #6

So now I’m just waiting to hear Microsoft is switching its kernel to Linux. Especially after the switch to chromium.

From what I understand NT already abstracts Win 32/64 APIs roughly the same way it abstracts the POSIX ones -- if they switched to Linux kernel + an abstraction layer for Win 64 (Official Microsoft Wine, basically) that's one less kernel and one less abstraction to maintain (WSL replaced by the kernel's native interface). I would happily pay for and operate such a product -- especially if I could install such a "Wind…

Primary issue with this would be driver support. Also there is value in the NT kernal itself in my opinion.

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Post by sorenjan »

x0n wrote: post #20
taf2 wrote: post #6

So now I’m just waiting to hear Microsoft is switching its kernel to Linux. Especially after the switch to chromium.

The irony is, with Windows 10/2019, it's the other way around: Linux has switched its kernel to NT. See WSL.

GNU/WindowsNT

Re: Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

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Post by snazz »

briandear wrote: post #11
npmaile wrote: post #10

Now all they have to do is switch their kernel to linux, their gui to kde and get their office suite to LibreOffice, and Windows will be the perfect computer.

I don’t use LibreOffice or Office anymore, but is Libre actually a better product?

It has a lot more UI options, so you can remove the Ribbon and other controversial UI elements. It’s also scriptable in JavaScript and Python [0], which is an improvement over VBA for the HN crowd.

[0]: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Scripting

Re: Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

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Post by acct1771 »

mey wrote: post #26
lotyrin wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I understand NT already abstracts Win 32/64 APIs roughly the same way it abstracts the POSIX ones -- if they switched to Linux kernel + an abstraction layer for Win 64 (Official Microsoft Wine, basically) that's one less kernel and one less abstraction to maintain (WSL replaced by the kernel's native interface). I would happily pay for and operate such a product -- especially if I could install such a "Wind…

Primary issue with this would be driver support. Also there is value in the NT kernal itself in my opinion.

Because?

What advantages does it offer?

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