5 Jul
2021
5 Jul
'21
2:10 a.m.
On Jul 3, 2021, at 9:36 PM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 02:47:57AM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
One thing I’d like to point out is that Linux On Windows is becoming
a thing, to the point that you can execute native Linux applications for
the most part directly in this weird environment.
So even M$ sees that Linux could be a threat in the long term and is
making an attempt to prevent it from harming the M$ universe.
See, you can run your Linux code on Windows, why do you want to
run Linux now? 8^)
David
On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 09:20:57AM -0400, Dan
Cross wrote:
[...]
> Much of Unix's early evolution and thus architecture and philosophy, came
> from addressing a set of problems that people had in a historical context
> that, one could argue, aren't that relevant anymore.
Unix still matters. It has mattered for a very long time, I could argue
it is the most important operating system in the world. Yeah, windows
won, but it didn't win on merits.