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> Had Microsoft been serious with POSIX subsystem, and most likely I would never bothered with Linux for our UNIX assignments. Arguably they did have a serious
by EvanAnderson 2y ago
> Had Microsoft been serious with POSIX subsystem, and most likely I would never bothered with Linux for our UNIX assignments.
Arguably they did have a serious POSIX subsystem w/ the Interix (nee OpenNT) acquisition but they didn't do anything with it. I remember building GNU software under Interix and having a blast with it.
I still wish there was a distribution of NT that booted text -mode and had an Interix-based userland. That would be tons of fun.
- pjmlp 2y agoNowadays that would be Windows Server Core with WSL, which unfortunely isn't yet supported.
- EvanAnderson 2y agoInterix was so much more orthogonal to the design of NT-- so much more elegant. WSLv1 was more elegant than WSLv2. WSLv2 feels like a minor step up from just running a Linux VM.
- pjmlp 2y agoAgreed, that is what happens when Linux syscalls are more relevant than regular UNIX. See the usual complains about macOS not being Linux, from people that probably should be supporting Linux OEMs instead of buying Apple laptops.