Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by Insanity on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:05AM
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Does feel a bit off-topic for the discussion at hand.
Unfortunately, I can't help clarify, sorry
Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by walterbell on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:08AM
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A question about mandating Microsoft Windows to develop Microsoft Linux apps is off-topic on a Linux Foundation article about Microsoft?
Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by askmike on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:11AM
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> Linux Foundation article about Microsoft
*About Microsoft buying Github.
Yes, most definitely.
Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by walterbell on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:20AM
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Github hosts many open-source Linux embedded projects that are optimized for Linux toolchains, not Visual Studio.
Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by Insanity on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:11AM
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Well, if anything it's more 'meta' than the content of the article. But I suppose you just wanted to highlight it rather than pose it as a question :)
Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by walterbell on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:18AM
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It’s a real question. It makes no sense that Microsoft would impose a hard requirement, they only need to make Visual Studio more convenient for open-source Linux developers, which should be trivially easy in comparison to any Linux embedded CLI toolchain.
If you’re Microsoft courting the open-source community to the the tune of $7.5B purchase of Github, and you are releasing the first Microsoft Linux kernel, why would you unnecessarily mandate the tying of Linux to a Windows toolchain, when you’re already going to win/earn a voluntary tie by competing on usability? What you want is developers voluntarily porting their Github embedded Linux open-source projects to Visual Studio.
New Microsoft should have a chat with vestiges of Old Microsoft.
If you want to develop software for Microsoft’s Linux distro/kernel (Azure Sphere for IoT), it appears you must use Windows 10 + Visual Studio, https://seeedstudio.com/productDetail/3052 & https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/developing-an-azure-s...
> To use MT3620 Dev Board for Azure Sphere, you’ll need a Windows 10 PC with the latest Windows Updates, along with the Visual Studio Tools for Azure Sphere (which will be available for download from Microsoft). These tools will include application templates, development tools and the Azure Sphere software development kit (SDK).
Can someone clarify if Windows 10 will be a hard requirement to use the Microsoft Azure Sphere Linux SDK for IoT/embedded boards?