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Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10:
Linux on Windows 10 gets a big boost and GPU acceleration
Microsoft is promising to dramatically improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with GUI app support and GPU hardware acceleration. The software giant is adding a full Linux kernel to Windows 10 with WSL version 2 later this month, and it’s now planning to support Linux GUI apps that will run alongside regular Windows apps.
This will be enabled without Windows users having to use X11 forwarding, and it’s mainly designed for developers to run Linux integrated development environments (IDE) alongside regular Windows apps.
While it has been possible to run Linux GUI apps within Windows previously using a third-party X server, poor graphics performance has always been an issue. Microsoft is promising to solve this, too. Windows 10 will soon get added support for GPU hardware acceleration with Linux tools. This is primarily focused on development scenarios involving parallels computation or training machine learning and artificial intelligence models.
So is it the year of Linux on the Desktop?
(Score: 2) by Pav on Wednesday May 20 2020, @06:16AM (10 children)
Seeing as they rolled Richard Stallman and ejected him from his own movement I wouldn't be surprised if a new MS-friendly GPL is coming... there's a whole lot of software licensed "..or any subsequent version". It's the same way the Democrats and the union movement were defeated - roll the old believers and stock the management with corporate friendly shills who sell the farm.
(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:24AM (7 children)
Even if a new license is coming it, projects cannot just fork and change the license if it would be incompatible. Quite aa lot of FUD.
(Score: 2) by Pav on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:33AM (5 children)
Fork? The FSF requires contributors on its projects to transfer copyright to them so there's no need.
(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Wednesday May 20 2020, @08:33AM (3 children)
And? This not stop a fork on the still GPL code. Oracle has pulled such tricks with the db berkeley and made it AGPL. The community just forked and continued on the GPL code.
(Score: 2) by Pav on Wednesday May 20 2020, @08:51AM (2 children)
And GitHub, the US government (US Navy, NASA etc...), Tesla, Netflix, WeChat, Facebook, Zendesk, Twitter, Zappos, YouTube, Spotify etc... including their developer contributions stuck with MySQL. Community divided, victory largely achieved, all while nerds deny reality online so nothing is learned.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by aiwarrior on Wednesday May 20 2020, @10:41AM (1 child)
It goes both ways. I just gave you an example of the other way around, ironically from Oracle also. I do not see any victory achieved, specially in the DB space where there is so much diversity already, open and closed source. Actually your example shows exactly that software where there is plenty of support it is a non issue. I can guarantee you that those exact same companies are the first to switch if the community dies.
So i politely disagree. For what is worth i manage an embedded linux distribution for a very big telecom base station manufacturer. We want to take as much for free as possible. Dead communities do not provide "value" so we just move to the next one. The Open source community is self healing.
(Score: 2) by Pav on Friday May 22 2020, @04:01AM
It doesn't have to result in a project kill. It just has to slow development enough, perhaps make security worse because of less eyes etc... so that life is easier for Oracle. How is that NOT a win?
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Wednesday May 20 2020, @12:45PM
What does it even mean to transfer copyright under GPL? You just get the license right back from the entity to which you transfer. I guess the FSF could make it proprietary for subsequent versions. You retain all the GPL rights, right up to the moment they do that. If that ever happened, any of the copies out there could be used for a fork, and that would be perfectly legal AFAIK. Maybe they would have to change the name of the project, but that's about it I think. LOL, we'd have "Free GNU" like "Free DOS".
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(Score: 3, Funny) by TheRaven on Thursday May 21 2020, @10:54AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @10:36PM (1 child)
I was sad to see Stallman get booted, but honestly he dug his own grave. It is simply the sad state of public comments, on the whole humanity does not do well with nuance. Trying to debate the fine points of pedophilia and outliers that probably shouldn't be grouped as pedophilia is just a terrible terrible terrible thing to argue about in emails. Pair that with his previous gaffes and "jokes" like "hot girls only" or whatever the note was outside his office door, well, yeah he did it to himself.
He needed someone to manage his PR and set him straight on acceptable behavior. Quite frankly he was given a tremendous amount of slack throughout his time at MIT.
I do agree that there is likely larger powers using the scandal to push him out and that is a shame. However, as long as misogynerds keep shrieking about being woke it will be incredibly easy to get people kicked out for crossing the professional line. Bigotry is getting the hammer, and we nerds need to just accept that instead of crying about not being able to say faggot or nigger. Dig your own holes if you wish, I'll stick to adapting to new cultural norms myself instead of becoming the asshole no one wants around.
(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Thursday May 21 2020, @03:33PM
That this is the world we live in is actually dangerous. This is where the alt rights, or extremisms come from. For every action there is a reaction. If you push things too much in one direction regardless of being morally right or wrong you will make the system less stable and easily trigger "explosive" rebalances. More and more i see human societies as dynamic systems that need to accept good and bad or they will eventually veer into extremes of either way.