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It almost is, but not exactly a rebase. They are bringing in official SCP/SSH support, proper terminals with unix shells. X11 gui support (with WSL). I feel li

by pknopf 6y ago

It almost is, but not exactly a rebase. They are bringing in official SCP/SSH support, proper terminals with unix shells. X11 gui support (with WSL). I feel like Microsoft has read the writing on the wall. Developers love nix-based systems (Mac, Linux). They are trying their best to catch developers at the door with a "but wait! there's more!"

pjmlp 6y ago
If NT 3.51 had the necessary POSIX support for me to do my DG/UX homework, I would most likely never bothered with that Linux Unleashed book offering Slackware 2.0.
fifticon 6y ago
I believe it is a variation of their embrace-extend strategy. If you can tempt linux applications into cross-calling services on a present window side, suddenly you have a justification to keep a windows license running where a linux license would have sufficed. And so, another windows instance got an excuse to be kept running/installed.
- spapas82 6y ago
  The next step after embrace and extend is extinguish. This is why I am always careful when Microsoft seems to suddenly love something...
- m12k 6y ago
  If Linux is running in Azure, Microsoft still gets paid. They don't need to sell Windows licenses, they need to start getting a piece of the pie when web developers deploy to Linux servers. Getting Windows to be an attractive development platform for someone targeting Linux servers is an essential part of that.
JosephRedfern 6y ago
This may just be semantics, but is any of that stuff (SCP/SSH, terminals, shells, X11) actually Linux, as in, the Linux kernel? Aren't these are all "just" utilities?
- pknopf 6y ago
  It's a mix. SCP/SSH is official Windows builds. The shells/tools are Linux kernel with some hypervisor magic (WSL). I'm sure there are other things I'm missing in this.
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