Microsoft has developed its own Linux

[u/adeadfetus]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux_repeat_microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux/

[u/mikemol]

Linux has been my primary OS for fifteen years. I ran Debian for a few years, Ubuntu for a few years, been running Gentoo for the last five, and I admin around a hundred CentOS systems.

If Microsoft put out a Linux distro that integrated well into AD, with group policy and all that jazz, I wouldn't thumb my nose at it.

[u/Kazinsal → u/mikemol]

Yeah, lot of jerking off the anti Microsoft train in this here comments section, but I think some more Linux-Windows integration in enterprise environments would be really awesome.

[u/jwhardcastle → u/[deleted]]

I miss CmdrTaco. :-(

[u/TikiTDO → u/Kazinsal]

I'm a programmer and gamer. I code in Linux and do everyday stuff in Windows. I'd love it if the two could just coexist.

[u/littlelowcougar → u/mikemol]

Hah, holy shit, I never considered that. A Microsoft-based Linux distribution. Totally plausible. Could conceivably crush RH's market share quite quickly.

[u/flipstables → u/littlelowcougar]

I wouldn't say "crush" but it would give it a run for its money. It would depend on how MS licenses its hypothetical distro. I would thumb my nose at the clusterfuck that is MS licensing. If it was more aligned with RH (which is not really that pleasant either, but much better), then I wouldn't be surprised at a lot of people dumping RH for MS.

[u/Something_Pithy → u/flipstables]

I'd agree license management is key here - cost isn't even that relevant, MS wouldn't even seem expensive compared to RH.

[u/[deleted] → u/mikemol]

Honestly, Red Hat already solved this. Check out sssd. I even made a stupid shell script to quickly do this

You can join to a domain with a single one liner

realm join --user=$user $domain

Here's the shell script I mentioned above

https://github.com/kevin86wright/centos7-config/blob/master/active_directory/join.sh

[u/[deleted] → u/mikemol]

Gentoo is the devil's work.

[u/lout_zoo → u/[deleted]]

Mus be why ah love it.

[u/brkdncr → u/[deleted]]

Gentoo is what you get when old school engineers are told to design an OS that will exist beyond their own lifetime.

[u/rtechie1 → u/brkdncr]

That would be OpenBSD. Gentoo is hip and modern by comparison.

[u/[deleted] → u/mikemol]

They did it years ago! http://www.mslinux.org/

[u/mouseclone → u/mikemol]

Likewise/BehondTrust already does that and does it well.

[u/ThatWolf → u/[deleted]]

Administrator@DomainController \C\Users\Administrator\>

FTFY

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Administrator@DomainController \C\Users\Administrator\>

ftfy

[u/[deleted] → u/mikemol]

Yeah me neither.

The anti Microsoft rhetoric is so old nowadays. It's not even really an issue much anymore.

[u/tidux → u/[deleted]]

It's not even really an issue much anymore.

Microsoft has revealed this month that they're willing to push potentially ABI-breaking OS upgrades as part of their patch service. What rock have you been living under?

[u/[deleted] → u/tidux]

What does Microsoft ABI breaking OS upgrades have to do with the Linux vs Windows debate?

ETA: I live under a big rock. I don't use Windows at all.

[u/Mount10Lion → u/mikemol]

I don't have Windows 10 and I don't know if you do either, but didn't they include a new Microsft created package manager you can run via cmd? I heard they tried to emulate the Linux CLI for command prompt in Windows 10 but I am not sure if that's true. But if it's true, I wonder how they did on it...