[GTALUG] The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux - TechRepublic

[Paul King]

Great news! But to be clear, I think they are only talking about BASH and 
servers. But even so, it's not the first time they've given things out for free 
in recent years (apart from MsSQL): they've been giving out free versions of 
Visual Studio (personal edition or something like that), for example. It's 
significant, but it depends on what you're looking for. Maybe the offering is 
too simple or spare. It didn't look too bad when I tried it once, but I wanted 
things it wasn't offering. I would suppose that VS could bw useful to anyone 
looking for something to play with. Currently, my Windows-based language of 
preference (for executables) is Lazarus. For scripts it's Perl. For a 
*NIX-based system on WIndows, I have Cygwin. 

I would be truly impressed if MS was contributing to Cygwin. Not sure if that 
ever happened. Downloading and installation is still as sloppy as it ever was 
(and if you are not careful, a painfully slow post-install of LaTex font 
packages), so probably not. Although, their X-windows managers have come a long 
way. 

Paul King

On 15 Apr 2016 at 16:37, James Knott wrote:

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