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Its ironic that Linux (i.e. the kernel) is the one part of the operating system explicitly not being used in WSL. GNU userspace may have won a victory but its
by slededit 8y ago
Its ironic that Linux (i.e. the kernel) is the one part of the operating system explicitly not being used in WSL. GNU userspace may have won a victory but its sad its not under its own name.
- pjmlp 8y agoTechnically it is GNU/Windows, but Linux was won the market share among common people, and yeah I don't think FSF will find it amusing. However, I bet if Microsoft had improved the original POSIX personality on NT instead of the way it dealt with it, Linux would probably never won't the hearts of the other UNIX vendors. Many of us only jumped into GNU/Linux, because it provided a path to use the work of the university computers at home, Windows 95 wouldn't do it and getting NT 3.51 with the respective hardware was too expensive.
- slededit 8y agoAt that time they thought they could destroy Unix. Its interesting to think of what could have been, but it was never a real possibility as far as microsoft was concerned.
- pjmlp 8y agoThey could have destroyed UNIX, traditional commercial UNIXes that is, like SGI and such. Many UNIX customers were in the process of evaluating their workstation story related to hardware and license costs, eyeing a possible switch to NT Workstations. That did not happen, because GNU/Linux came into the scene and many saw there an opportunity to improve it and get a pass porting their UNIX software into it instead, while using commodity PC hardware, specially as BSD future was still being decided. Without BSD and GNU/Linux, the future would have looked much different. Instead BSD and GNU/Linux were the ones killing commercial UNIXes.