Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor For Linux . My mind immediatly recalls
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
Henry Spencer, author of regex
Dear MicroSoft, you’re fifty years late. Also if I want a very light, very simple editor I use mcedit – the editor coming with Midnight Commander – or nano
Illo tempore – ma nemmeno troppi eoni fa – ti installavi postfix o dovecot facevi, due o tre aggiustamenti1 e ti facevi il tuo server di posta (SMTP). Oggi gestirsi il proprio server SMTP è diventato assai arduo!
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AnduinOS is a custom Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that aims to facilitate developers transitioning from Windows to Linux by maintaining familiar operational habits and workflows.
Now it turns out that the sole maintainer of Linux distribution AnduinOS turns out to be a Microsoft employee. And it sounds a little strange to me, as Anduinos is advertized as GPL-v3 licensed… as far as I remember Microsoft hates GPL, especially GPL-v3!
This quickemu could easily dislodge VirtualBox as my favorite desktop virtualization solution:
Quickly create and run highly optimized desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; …
Quickemu now also includes comprehensive support for macOS and Windows.
Features
- macOS Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave & High Sierra
- Windows 10 and 11 including TPM 2.0
- Ubuntu and all the official Ubuntu flavours
- Over 360 operating system editions are supported!
- Full SPICE support including host/guest clipboard sharing
- VirtIO-webdavd file sharing for Linux and Windows guests
- VirtIO-9p file sharing for Linux and macOS guests
- QEMU Guest Agent support; provides access to a system-level agent via standard QMP commands
- Samba file sharing for Linux, macOS and Windows guests (if
smbdis installed on the host)- VirGL acceleration
- USB device pass-through
- Smartcard pass-through
- Automatic SSH port forwarding to guests
- Network port forwarding
- Full duplex audio
- Braille support
- EFI (with or without SecureBoot) and Legacy BIOS boot
- Graphical user interfaces available
Io sarò paranoico, ma continuo a sentire puzza di Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (Abbraccia, estendi ed estingui) .
Se la parte migliore di Win11 è il sottosistema Linux perché non usare Linux direttamente?
Oltre al fatto che l’esperienza di software libero che ottieni è monca perché la maggior parte dei programmi lato server gira male.
Perché non usare Linux direttamente?
http://www.fastweb.it/web-e-digital/come-installare-facilmente-linux-su-windows-10/
A new round of the usual Microsoft tactic: embrace, extend, extinguish. Now at step one
From: Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There’s an Elephant In the Room – Slashdot
Esther Schindler writes: They’re trying, honest they are. In 2016 alone, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Microsoft announced SQL Server on Linux; integrated Eclipse and Visual Studio, launched an open-source network stack on Debian Linux; and it’s adding Ubuntu Linux to its Azure Stack hybrid-cloud offering. That’s all well and good, he says, but it’s not enough. There’s one thing Microsoft could do to gain real open-source trust: Stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents. But, there’s too much money at stake, writes sjvn, for this to ever happen. For instance, in its last quarter, volume licensing and patents, accounted for approximately 9% of Microsoft’s total revenue.
Most people simply had to deal with proprietary software that more or less runs exclusively on Microsoft OSes. For example when I bought my Dell laptop I used the Microsoft license that I grudgingly had to bought to create a fully legal installation into a virtual machine as the physical machine never ran it. I did even the first boot using GNU/Linux. I spent the serial of my fully legally owned license to install in into a VirtualBox instance.
I underestimated the never ending space hunger of those OSes so I found useful this “Growing your VirtualBox Virtual Disk (The Fat Bloke Sings)” copied here just in case it goes offline.
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