[dayglored]

Of course, this is about A LOT more than Bash. We're talking an environment that looks and acts like a Linux environment.

Steve "Linux is a Cancer"* Ballmer must be flipping out. Of course he's rich enough he doesn't actually give a cr@p now.

Anyway, this is a Big Deal. Especially for those of us SysAdmins who daily work with both Windows Server and Linux server systems interoperatively.

 

* Yeah, I know, he said Open Source was a cancer, as he tried to destroy Linux. Whatever. :-)

[dayglored]

Linux and Windows Server, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Eventually Windows will just be a presentation layer for Linux. Been saying it for years.

[PreciousLiberty]

Interesting times. It’s hard to see how running free Linux on top of an expensive, proprietary OS beats simply running free Linux... What it does do is give Linux yet more credibility as a server OS, not that it really needed it.

Microsoft is in trouble in the server room. Linux has tremendous momentum, very few startups are using Windows at this point. So far Windows is clinging to the Outlook/Office niche, we’ll see how that does going forward...

I hope the BSDs start to gain some traction against Linux, it’s bad to have just a couple of OS options from a security standpoint.

[IndispensableDestiny]

NT 4 and I think Win 2K had “Unix subsystem for Windows.” They needed it for POSIX compliance.

[miliantnutcase]

Exactly. Finding a guy who knows Linux and powershell is exceedingly rare.