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…
Category: Microsoft
Ethics, Microsoft
Sempre più arduo…
Illo tempore – ma nemmeno troppi eoni fa – ti installavi postfix o dovecot facevi, due o tre aggiustamenti e ti facevi il tuo server di posta (SMTP). Oggi gestirsi il proprio server SMTP è diventato assai arduo!
Ethics, GNU/Linux, Microsoft
Open Source & Linux – AnduinOS
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…
Apple, Microsoft, Proprietary software, Software, Software Libero
Quickemu
This quickemu could easily dislodge VirtualBox as my favorite desktop virtualization solution:
GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Mood
Perché non usare l’originale?
The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux 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…
Link
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
Microsoft, Mood
They got an Elephant In the House
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…
Microsoft, Proprietary software
Growing your VirtualBox Virtual Disk
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…