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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by jdmichal on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:40PM (#12315223)
I'm assuming that the Powershell port includes some subset of the standard cmdlets, which will handle serializing to and from objects.
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by mhurron on Thursday August 18, 2016 @03:21PM (#12315579)
A subset means it doesn't work as well or the same way.
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by jdmichal on Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:28PM (#12316765)
No... It just means that all features may not be available. It makes no comments on how well the existing features work and how compatible they are with the Windows version.

I mean, `Get-ComputerRestorePoint` and `Get-WmiObject` don't mean anything on Linux. I assume those won't be ported. `Get-Process` is certainly meaningful; I assume that will be. The ports might also have cmdlets not available on Windows. I could certainly see cmdlets to interact with `apt` in Ubuntu, or `yum` in RHEL. Especially since PowerShell is focused on provisioning and managing machines.

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