Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Microsoft has announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is coming to Windows Server.
Microsoft's adding it to Windows Server for the same reasons it added it to Windows: it wants developers to have whatever tools they prefer at their disposal.
Sysadmins are also on Redmond's mind, it says. "If you're a server engineer that needs to run node.js, Ruby, Python, Perl, Bash scripts or other tools that expect Linux behaviors, environment or filesystem-layout, the ability to install and run Linux with WSL expands the tools at your disposal on Windows Server."
Redmond snuck WSL into Windows Server Insider Build 16237 without including it in the announcement. It's now issued instructions on how to install it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @02:01AM (3 children)
Wouldn't it make more sense to run Win10 inside some version of Linux? That way Linux could be taught to intercept all the "windows call home" traffic and fake suitable replies to keep the Win10 installation happy.
Or maybe someone has already worked out how to do this?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday August 11 2017, @03:29AM (1 child)
It's called virtualization. But the much less fussy way is to setup a firewall.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @05:05PM
Interesting. A quick Google turned up this site that claims to have a listing of all the sites to block with the firewall, http://winaero.com/blog/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using-just-windows-firewall/ [winaero.com]
Anyone here tried this? I'm still on Win7, but at some point customers are going to force me to move to 10 (or maybe I'll retire first!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @08:04AM
Why not run windows 7 as a vm in linux?