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Microsoft has been shipping POSIX-compliant Windows for over three decades now[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem https://en.wikip
by mullingitover 2y ago
Microsoft has been shipping POSIX-compliant Windows for over three decades now[1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
- hinkley 2y agoHold up. Didn’t they have no POSIX subsystem from 2012 to 2016? You can’t call it 30 years if they stopped, and stopping puts into question when they will stop again.
- convolvatron 2y agoalso before 2012 is was so marginal as to not be really usable for anything
- dekhn 2y agoyou could replace it with a fuller 'interix' which was basically a full Unix with x and motif. I ported a large motif gui app but never used it. Microsoft later bought interix
- lmm 2y agoIt was still available as a download for Server 2012. It was listed as deprecated and they recommended various migration paths, but they didn't stop shipping it.
- hinkley 2y agoYou don’t build a company strategy on deprecated projects with no announced replacement. Especially if it’s Microsoft or Google.
- 0xbadcafebee 2y agoYes but only as a technicality for sales. Nobody ever actually depended on or used the Windows POSIX system. Cygwin was created as a response to wanting a real working POSIX system on Windows.
- suprjami 2y agoServices for UNIX has been removed and the "replacement" is WSL. I don't know if SFU was actually POSIX compliant, but Linux isn't 100% compliant and doesn't aim to be. Maybe having some modern WSL is better than having SFU's POSIX-1990?