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Beyond Bash: Microsoft Refines the Windows Subsystem for Linux
- paulryanrogers 10y agoInteresting that Microsoft is so eager to support enough syscalls for non-GUI developers. But I wonder how much this increases the attack surface of both Windows and the WSL Linux.
- tracker1 10y agoIt may not be the only reason, but my thoughts from the start were that if this flushes out enough, getting Linux containers (docker) on windows in a native way could be a big win, and even bigger in Azure's space. I really liked the approach that Joyent took to getting Docker/Linux containers on their Solaris fork.
- najajomo 10y ago"the increasing number of developers considering a move from Mac OS because they find the MacBook Pro underpowered for their needs" Why the need to insert anti Mac FUD into a technical article? "via a pico driver with Microsoft’s clean room implementation of the Linux syscall interface." Why clean room it, the kernel is GPL after all. This whole Linux-on-Windows strategy is nothing more than a ploy to slow down Linux adoption. Provide enough features to call it Linux without being actually being useful.
- predakanga 10y agoAll FUD aside, "developers looking for an alternative to the new MBP" is a pretty decent market to capture. I have no doubt that Microsoft are directing their efforts to try and take advantage of them.
- hamandcheese 10y agoI think it makes a lot more sense to clean room it. Most (all?) of the functionality is already present in the Windows kernel, there just needs to be a Linux compatible API exposed. The alternative is to... run two kernels? I doubt that's feasible in any form that doesn't resemble running a Linux VM.