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Microsoft just announced that three different versions of the free Linux operating system — Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora — are coming to the Windows Store, the app market in Windows 10.
It sounds weird, but it makes perfect sense. In early 2016, Microsoft announced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a way for developers to use full versions of Linux within Windows 10 itself.
Putting aside the historical ramifications here — Microsoft spent the 90s unsuccessfully trying to stamp out Linux, a free alternative to Windows — it was a move intended to bait programmers into using Windows 10.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-store-gets-ubuntu-suse-fedora-linux-2017-5
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 14 2017, @09:44PM (3 children)
https://m.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/#content [theregister.co.uk]
If you consider that each user of Linux is an equal owner of the OS, it sorta meets the Socialist paradigm.
Contrast this with Capitalist M$:
Maximize profits for the ownership class (where the user owns nothing--classic rent-seeking); exploit the workers; manipulate and exploit the users.
If you go by the Communist "From each according to his abilities; to each according to his needs" thing, with FOSS you have kernel devs, app devs, artsy guys, language translators, installfest guys, help forum guys, advocates... with all of them doing the Stone Soup thing [wikipedia.org] and each getting the software they need.
...so, that pretty much fits too.
What's not to like?
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday May 15 2017, @09:30AM (2 children)
Someone putting systemd into the soup.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @11:23AM
Someone putting systemd into the soup
# ps auxwww |grep -i systemd
anon777 77 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 777 0:00 grep --color=auto -i systemd
#
seems as though the Windows Subsystem for Linux is one of the easier ways to get a modern linux userspace without systemd.
I've never used a Windows desktop in my life, having gone straight from Dos to Linux. I've supported every version since 95 and admined every version since NT4, but never used it on my own desktop machine. Been using Windows 10 with subsystem for linux for quite a few months now and it is 100% usable. I'm thinking Windows 10 is a codeword for windows 1.0, it is the first usable version of Windows. Decent user interface, decent command line userspace, turns out I care less about the kernel then I thought I did (which wasn't much actually, been a long time since I recompiled a kernel).
Linux project is compromised anyway, what difference does it make which sell-out operating system is spying on me? Still prefer Slackware though, for its sane package management policies, i.e. no automatic updates.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @06:58PM
In many cases, systemd is NOT the default init; it is available as a condiment for those who want it.
Free and Open-Source (FOSS) operating systems without systemd in the default installation [without-systemd.org]
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