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What is Microsoft Doing with Linux? Everything You Need to Know about its Plans for Open Source

posted by requerdanos on Monday December 28 2020, @06:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the love-your-enemy dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

With an article that covers "From Cancer to Cloud" and beyond, Techrepublic asks: What is Microsoft Doing With Linux? Everything You Need to Know About its Plans for Open Source

'Microsoft and Linux' should be a phrase we're used to hearing by now. Microsoft is a member of not only the Linux Foundation but also the Linux kernel security mailing list... Microsoft is submitting patches to the Linux kernel... And when Microsoft wanted to add container support to Windows, it picked an open-source specification designed originally for [Linux].

Now Azure customers get the same hybrid benefits for Linux support contracts as they do for Windows Server licences; Windows runs Linux binaries; some key Microsoft applications are available on Linux; and new services might be built with Linux.

[...] At the recent Azure Open Day, Kubernetes co-founder and Microsoft corporate vice-president Brendan Burns talked about Microsoft having a deep understanding of Linux and contributing to existing open-source projects based on Linux as well as founding new ones like Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime).

[...] In short, Microsoft 'hearts' Linux.

But forget the idea of throwing away the Windows kernel and replacing it with a Linux kernel, because Microsoft's approach to Linux is far more pragmatic and comprehensive. Although the company is now thoroughly cross-platform, not every application will move to or take advantage of Linux. Instead, Microsoft adopts or supports Linux when the customers are there, or when it wants to take advantage of the ecosystem with open-source projects.

With GNU/Linux increasingly a part of both Windows 10 and Microsoft's cloud offerings, do you prefer to get your Linux from Microsoft, or from a more traditional source?

Original Submission

Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody Windows 10 Will Soon Ship with a Full, Open Source, GPLed Linux Kernel Open Source's Eric Raymond: Windows 10 Will Soon be Just an Emulation Layer on Linux Kernel

 
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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2020, @06:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2020, @06:14PM (#1092112)

    > i use an anonymous public forum to vent the daily amount of asshole in me.

    You don't say! Your posts are shit by the way.

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday December 29 2020, @01:02AM

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Tuesday December 29 2020, @01:02AM (#1092290)

    aah look, the person I'm making fun of thinks the quality of my words is lacking. did you also think the guy in high school stuffing you into a locker while the girls giggled had bad manners?

    to this battle of wits sir, you've come unarmed. but do keep going. it's very entertaining for me.