Shame on you....
Now that it's released and is under the MS umbrella *nix won't be such a
communist thing anymore, ShelleytheRepublican won't be able to bang on any
more unless she desides that the OSS staff that have been brought into MS have
hypontised everyone at Redmond and have implanted the idea of *nix being a
good thing - then she'll really be up in arms.
OR maybe in 10 years from now she'll be claiming that MS developed *nix and
linux is just an off shoot ...
God think of the arguements that'll arise from what i've just said.
Hay maybe we could do a spoof by claiming that MS has been sponsoring Linux
for years and have now come out of the closset with the new product.
Quoting Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Is it time to bring out that 1987 quote about re-inventing unix?
Cheers,
Carl.
On 10/05/06, Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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)
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"
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
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.
- steve
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