Re:Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem
by dbgllm on Friday July 15, 2016 @11:52AM
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You mention a target as compliance or certification, but I don't think this is a direct concern for the WSL. They want to support specific use-cases, at least at first.
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"Moving forward we will be investigating new areas of interest while continuing to support the following scenarios:
+ GNU command line tools such as grep, sed, and awk
+ File system and symlink support within the WSL environment
+ Ability to run apt / apt-get for installs, updates, and package testing
+ Basic functionality for languages such as NodeJS/npm, Python, Perl
+ Command line tools such as Vim, Emacs, Git, and SSH"
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/07/08/bash-on-ubun...
Re:Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem
by cptskippy on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:07PM
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I don't think it's a direct concern either. Though if I had to guess they'd target LSB over any of the others.
I think it's telling that they called it the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" where are their prior Subsystems (SUA/SFU) were for "Unix".
LSB is mostly a superset of POSIX. POSIX is a subset of SUS. OSX is SUS compliant, though not POSIX certified. Windows is POSIX certified though not SUS compliant. And no one is LSB certified except a few Linux Distros.
This leaves me wondering exactly what target Microsoft should be aiming for since everyone seems to be playing by their own rules. It's like playing Monopoly with your friend's family who has their own house rules that aren't really like your family's house rules both of which are incompatible with the official rules.