Quoting Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Some interesting developments on 'the other side'... > > POWERSHELL (aka Monad, MSH) - See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell for an intro. Very > strong *nix flavour, and Exchange12 administration GUI's will be built > upon this - ie the CLI comes first, and the GUI sits on top in classic > *nix fashion. Beta versions can be downloaded and played with now - it > won't be shipped for a while yet (it's not in Vista)
FWIW, I've been pushing at the Port25 site for Microsoft to give their approval for a *nix version, FLOSS by the community preferably. That's if they don't just bite the bullet and release the source code for a beta under the Microsoft Community License so people can port it to linux themselves, and do strange and wonderful things therein. > > UNIX IN WINDOWS - Windows Server 2003 now ships with a full Unix > sub-system, including gcc and tons of other GNU and GPL stuff: > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/R2/unixcomponents/webinstall. > mspx#EKB > > LINUX LAB - > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/aug05/08-10OpenSourceLa > b.mspx > > PORT25 - http://port25.technet.com "...people, insights, and analysis > from the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab" Sign up, beard the leopard in his den! ;-) > > LINUX CONFERENCES - 'Softie giving a keynote at Linuxworld - > http://www.idgworldexpo.com/download/bh.mp3 > > WINDOWLESS WINDOWS - The next version of Windows Server (Longhorn) will > have a GUI-less version, aimed at the same people who run their *nix > systems X11-less, called "Server Core" see: > http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en > -us/Srvcore/srvcore/portal.asp Do we get Internet Explorer with that? I mean, it _is_ a core part of Windows ... ;) Looks like Microsoft is trying to change itself into a faux-Un*x vendor. Should be fun days ahead! Wesley Parish > > > So, quite different approach from the rants and antagonism of the past. > My reading is that they've now got lots people on board with strong > *nix > backgrounds and are pushing really hard to capture the big Unix sites, > before they all go Linux. Most of this stuff is quite foreign to the > normal Windows user/administrator, but potentially re-assuring to Unix > admins. And you are forgetting the likes of http://minimsft.blogspot.com - guess which two comments are mine in http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/05/acronyms-attack-that-faq-upcoming-fam.html#comments ;) Wesley Parish > > - steve > > ========================================================= > > > This e-mail has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by > CommArc Cube Server > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
