On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 3:30:40 PM UTC-5, Csaba Toth wrote: > That's really great if someone gets to a Windows machine. ~snip~ > My full time dev machine is Linux, but I still use Windows for contracts.
Chugalug has a lot of talent; not surprising, as Chattanooga has supposedly has the fastest/cheapest internet in the US. Tech companies are flocking there and the city government + local Chamber of Commerce funded an IT incubator in the downtown area that's doing wonders for their economy. Anyway, a few other choice quotes from the thread: "...there is an article from MS somewhere with deeper technical details. It is basically container technology combined with system call translations at the OS layer. Similar to their old POSIX and OS/2 Subsystems circa NT40 days, with an entire OS distro thrown into the mix as a container." ~and~ "maybe the young'uns don't remember when Microsoft said ''Linux is a Cancer''" ~and~ "that was Steve Ballmer himself though — I doubt the sentiment was his alone, but things have changed. http://www.zdnet.com/article/ballmer-i-may-have-called-linux-a-cancer-but-now-i-love-it/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-microsoft-loves-linux/ http://open.microsoft.com/ Either way, it's interesting to see alterations in the way Microsoft operates. I suspect before the end of the year, we'll see them either acquire canonical, redhat or a combination thereof." Current bets seem to be on Canonical (Ubuntu) - "[ex-CEO Mark] Shuttleworth has been grooming this for at least six months." - with Red Hat "...the end-game jewel for MS. Canonical is a much easier and willing competitor at this point. My money says MS makes a play for RH within 5 years of acquiring Canonical. But not for the reasons you think." ~~jX PS - Space geek notes: Shuttleworth is the second self-funded space tourist and the first citizen of an independent African country (South Africa) to travel to space. He went up on Soyuz TM-34 from Baikonur Site 1, which was the last ever Soyuz TM flight (it was replaced by the upgraded Soyuz-TMA) for an eight day stay on the ISS near the end of Expedition 4. He came back down on Soyuz TM-33, landing in central Asia (~25km SE of Arkalyk) with two Russian cosmonauts. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
