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Earlier today, we wrote that Microsoft was going to add some big new features to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, including native support for Docker containers. It turns out that that ain't the half of it.
Not even half.
All is changing with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Instead of emulating the Linux kernel APIs on the NT kernel, WSL 2 is going to run a full Linux kernel in a lightweight virtual machine. This kernel will be trimmed down and tailored to this particular use case, with stripped-down hardware support (since it will defer to the host Windows OS for that) and faster booting.
The Linux kernel is GPLed open source; the GPL license requires that any modifications made to the code must be published and made available under the GPL license. Microsoft will duly comply with this, publishing the patches and modifications it makes to the kernel. WSL 2 will also use a similar split as the current WSL does: the kernel component will be shipped with Windows while "personalities" as provided by the various Linux distributions can be installed from the Microsoft Store.
To quote Han Solo, "I've got a bad feeling about this."
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday May 07 2019, @02:45PM (3 children)
Since on the topic of Jokes. Here is one I wrote in about that same timeframe. About 1999 or 2000. I posted it on Slashdot. It got some traction and was apparently copied around the net. Eventually making its way back to slashdot. When I mentioned I had wrote it on an earlier slashdot post, amusingly, trolls said it couldn't be true that I wrote it. Why not? Somebody had to write it!
Here goes . . .
Our father, who art in Redmond
Microsoft be thy name.
Thy monopoly come, thy will be done,
Throughout the earth as it is in the US.
Give us this day, our daily license activation key.
And forgive us our bug reports,
As we forgive our system crashes.
Lead us not into competition, but deliver us from innovation.
For thine is the Control and the Power and the Greed forever.
Amen.
Alternate ending:
For thine is the Copyright and the Patent and the Trademark forever, and ever and ever and ever . . .
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:17PM
Congrats. That one had entered the internet humor canon.
(Score: 2) by sshelton76 on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:20PM (1 child)
Haha, love it!
You've got talent. Wish I could even rhyme two words together.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:42PM
SCO's C.E.O. Darl McBride
To the press he repeatedly lied
"Linux stole our IP!"
"GPL'ed it for FREE!"
But no evidence could he provide.
(and gobs more like that on Y! SCOX back in the mid 2000's)
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