[vox] Linux As Microsoft's Little Helper

[Brian E. Lavender]

Hey Bob,

I think Linux will be the tool to help MS dig themselves out of the big
hole they are in.

You ought to check out Fedora 30! I have it running, and it runs great.
Yet, I still have a Windows machine for the, ugh, it's just easier in
some cases.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux on my Windows 10 is pretty cool, but you
can't seem to run GUI programs from the running Ubuntu. There needs to be
the Ubuntu distro with the binaries compiled with MinGW support. 

Microsoft has been a significant Linux contributor.

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2166123/microsoft-contributed-code-canonical-linux-2632

Pompeo recognizing global warming and doubling down on it sure
seems odd, yet expected at the same time. 

brian


On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 09:16:20AM -0700, Bob Scofield wrote:
> Because I'm not a tech person it's hard for me to understand a lot of
> stuff.  This week I've read four or five articles about Microsoft putting
> its own Linux kernel into Windows 10. But I didn't understand why until I
> read this one:
> 
> https://wccftech.com/microsoft-linux-a-cancer-warming-up-beat-macbooks/
> 
> Microsoft is trying to lure Windows developers away from the Mac. And it
> appears that many Microsoft employees use Macs at work.
> 
> I believe that both Microsoft and Apple have over the years tried to beat
> back Linux as a viable desktop, and I'd bet Microsoft would still act to
> thwart Linux in the desktop world.
> 
> The world is crazy. Just yesterday Mike Pompeo said that global warming will
> allow an increase in trade because ships will be able to travel through what
> is now the polar ice cap. And today I learn that Linux is Microsoft's little
> helper.
> 
> Bob
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make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

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The 1980 Turing award lecture